Roger Ebert Reviews

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice““Hanna““I’m Still Here““Paddington in Peru““Past Lives““Smile““Starship Troopers““The Sugarland Express““Train to Busan““The Wild Robot“ 11 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Better Man“ Much of the conversation around the unique Robbie Williams biopic in which a CGI monkey takes the place of the Take That singer was about the box office disappointment of the

John Carpenter’s “Starman” has lodged itself in my consciousness since I first saw it in 1984. I was eleven that Christmas, and there has not been a year in the last forty that I haven’t revisited this film at least once. It is, in many ways, the perfect film in my eyes – one that

“For relief you can trust, trust Tylenol. Hospitals do.” — From a 1981 TV commercial for Tylenol. In the second episode of the three-part Netflix true crime documentary series “Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders,” James Lewis fiddles with a box of Extra Strength Tylenol some four decades after he became the prime suspect in the

Even great writers are being defeated by the epidemic of bloated streaming series. Look no further than Netflix’s “Department Q,” adapted from the series of books by Jussi Adler-Olsen by none other than the brilliant Scott Frank, the certified genius behind “Out of Sight,” “Logan,” “Godless,” and “The Queen’s Gambit.” The man is one of

When From Software revealed “Elden Ring Nightreign” last year, Souls fans around the world were curious to see what the studio’s take on fully-fledged multiplayer was. After all, From Software’s previous games like “Dark Souls” and “Bloodborne” were single-player with some co-op elements. “Nightreign” is the next step in the evolution of the Soulslike formula

Some readers may be old enough to remember when every network was actively trying to find “The Next Friends,” hiring often random collections of unknown young performers and throwing them into comic hijinks together. The result was a wave of awful television with a few standouts (long live “Happy Endings”) and a form that quickly