Roger Ebert Reviews

Telluride Film Festival historically incorporates a fair number of documentary features and shorts alongside the main attraction, narrative features. This year, the documentary programming was thoughtfully political, and the selections thematically aligned well with the narrative features. This permitted my personal programming to have its own common thread and for synchronicities to shine. The new […]

I have a shocker for you: the titular pair in Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple” is not, in fact, perfect. I’m sure your mind is blown. Just like it will be when you come across the show’s radical organizing principle that money does not buy happiness. Retreading some well-worn ground, Netflix’s prestige murder mystery series is

I don’t want to say that this Telluride Film Festival has been more “political” this year than in the past, if only because political is such a broad term, but there have been more pictures aware of the effect we have on each other and on the world at this 51st edition of the festival

The Venice Film Festival is one of the most essential film events of the year, the bridge to the fall film-going season and an event that launches future award winners, top ten entries, and beloved classics. It’s also a remarkably diverse event in terms of film profiles with movies like “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and “Joker: Folie

It was in 2015 that I received my first invitation to the Venice Film Festival from Peter Cowie, the venerable scholar and critic. His new book, God and the Devil: The Life And Work of Ingmar Bergman, is a crowning achievement in Bergman studies, a career highlight from a master who hasn’t lost a step

Set in a nondescript working-class suburb of Sweden, “Paradise is Burning” focuses on three sisters whose mother is terminally absent. When the school begins to suspect their mother has taken off (again) a meeting with social services looms. This ticking clock adds tension as the eldest girl Laura (Bianca Delbravo) searches for someone to stand

A ferociously satisfying update of “First Blood” with a rustic Southern setting, “Rebel Ridge” furthers writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s pattern of trapping his protagonists in tight spots and making them fight their way out, even as it recalibrates the grisly survivalism of “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room,” along with the atmospheric tension of his Alaska-set “Hold

There is always an abundant amount of suspense when it comes to the Telluride Film Festival (TFF) lineup; it is kept secret until the Thursday before the festival. This year, for its 51st edition, TFF’s programming has a heavy emphasis on exposing and exploring some of the extreme realities we’re experiencing politically and socially. Telluride’s

The Toronto International Film Festival gets underway this week with over 200 feature films and dozens of special events. We will have multiple people on the ground in Canada to report on the best, the worst, and everything in between. Now, a lot of what people see in Toronto, and some of what we’ll cover,

Parida Tantiwasadakran’s “Young People, Old People and Nothing In Between” centers on the friendship between a 7-year-old named Juice (Deedee Piamwiriyaku) with ADHD and her friend, an elderly woman named Grandma Lovely (Suwinya Kungsadan), who is slowly descending into dementia. With such a wide age gap between them and a limited understanding of everything that