Roger Ebert Reviews

We’re closing out our coverage of an excellent Fantastic Fest this year with a trio of very different films, all worth seeing when they find their way to your area in theaters or on streaming. The best of the three is Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s wonderfully twisted “Bone Lake,” a film that feels like a European

Rooting its vicious, survivalist thrills in the dog days of the apocalypse while acting as an epilogue to the Book of Revelation, director E.L. Katz’s “Azrael” terrifies by being both specific with its world-building and opaque at how its horrors manifested.  Set “many years after the Rapture,” a brief intro text explains that, among those

For Gotham cinephiles, the New York Film Festival has its annual launch on the last Friday of September (the 2024 edition runs Sept. 27-Oct. 13). For critics, journalists and certain industry folks, though, the event begins a couple of weeks earlier, when festival press screenings commence at Lincoln Center. Those screenings don’t display films in

Chaz Ebert, president of Ebert Digital LLC and CEO of RogerEbert.com, is stepping into the director’s chair for the first time. At this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, she will premiere her short film “Wellness Warrior,” which explores the incredible life of Deborah Szekely, who has been called the “Godmother of Wellness” for her advocacy

What makes a TV show good? Everyone you ask, including my colleagues, will answer this differently. Here’s what I take into account: Does it have something to say? Does it contribute to the evolution of the medium? Does it take artistic risks? Does it play with lighting, costumes, editing? Even if the answer to all

Sotnikov stands on the cusp of death. He is among a small group of individuals awaiting death by hanging. We notice an old man among the condemned. His gaze is fixed inward, as though already retreating into the quiet depths of memory. Next to him, a woman breathes in uneven gasps. Her cheeks are stained

Restorations are a notable portion of the Fantastic Fest program, giving movie lovers a chance to see a handful of films on the big screen for the first time in years, or ever. This year’s restoration titles were a remarkable bunch of flicks that really speak to the array of offerings at this event. It’s

In 1987’s “Fatal Attraction,” Glenn Close’s Alex Forrest, just awakened from what must have been a deep sleep, the kind that comes after intense psychic upheaval, doesn’t look into Michael Douglas’ Dan Gallagher’s eyes when she asks him if he will call her sometime. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” she says,