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Chaz Ebert: As Roger Ebert would have said “Two Thumbs Up” for our Top Ten Lists! For a Film Critic, putting together a Top Ten Best Movies List at the end of the year is like playing Santa Claus at the North Pole. We are giving our loyal readers a gift list of film riches […]

“Dead to Me” creator Liz Feldman has once again delivered a whip-smart and heartfelt comedy for Netflix. This time, the series follows married couple Lydia (Lisa Kudrow) and Paul Morgan (Ray Romano) as they attempt to sell their luxurious Los Feliz home. While the concept appears slight, what unfolds is anything but. We first meet

Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 epic novel, Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), is Latin American canon, akin to Moby Dick. It won the Colombian author the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982 and is widely praised as one of the most influential works of its era. I read it for the first

In 1981, Roger Ebert called “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” an “out-of-body experience, a movie of glorious imagination and breakneck speed that grabs you in the first shot, hurtles you through a series of incredible adventures, and deposits you back in reality… breathless, dizzy, wrung-out, and with a silly grin on

“September 5” is the story of a small group of ABC Television sports journalists covering the 1972 Munich Olympics when Baader-Meinhof terrorists attacked Israeli athletes. The ABC team, the only ones with a camera inside the Olympic village, made an instant switch to cover breaking news. In an interview, director/co-screenwriter Tim Fehlbaum and actors Ben

Director RaMell Ross, and his spectacular leads in Brandon Wilson, Ethan Herisse, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor sat down with us in Telluride months ago to discuss “Nickel Boys,” their adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, opening this month in theaters. They broke down the film’s challenging subject matter, richly steeped in the history of Black people

What a year. It’s that time on the calendar when a site like RogerEbert.com is asked to distill the entire year to a list, but the best films of 2024 feel more difficult to summarize than most. There’s a remarkable diversity of tone, genre, and voice in the 20 films featured below, but what do

What does it mean for something to ‘has fallen’? Up till now, one could argue that it happens whenever Gerard Butler, sporting a face full of stubble and a dodgy American accent growled through gritted teeth, finds himself in a “Die Hard”-esque scenario requiring the protection or reclamation of a place or people against anonymous