Roger Ebert Reviews

A movie where six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams is so swallowed up by the weight of parenting that she disassociates by transforming into a dog might sound like a bit much. And it is, purposefully so. The body horror comedy “Nightbitch,” an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 magical realist novel of the same name, […]

The long-awaited James Gunn & Peter Safran relaunch of the DC Universe has finally taken flight. Not with Gunn’s upcoming Superman movie, mind you, but with “Creature Commandos,” an animated series centered around a monster team going on globe-trotting missions to save the world. It may seem like a new version of Gunn’s “The Suicide

When we are first introduced to Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), the protagonist of Netflix’s newest spy thriller “Black Doves,” she dons a nice dress and perfectly coiled hair that doesn’t move an inch. The wealthy wife of Defense Minister Wallace Webb (Andrew Buchan), Helen’s life has given her a big house, two children, and a

So many people I know who have seen Yannick Jamey’s charming documentary “The Big Wait” have said something along the lines of “I think that may be my dream job.” The film depicts a couple who run an emergency airport in the middle of nowhere in Forrest, Australia. This desert town consists of only these

Since “Star Wars” has made its home on Disney+, the franchise has been stagnant, serving the same self-serious space-western schlock with varying colors of lightsabers. Fortunately, Christopher Ford and Jon Watts’s “Skeleton Crew” is a refreshing departure from the recent, repetitive fare, offering an ‘80s-family-flick-style adventure for the whole family. “Skeleton Crew” is set after

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Dheepan““The Fast and the Furious” (and most of the franchise)“Focus““Rob Peace““Silverado““The Sisters Brothers““Superbad““Take Shelter““The Whale““Whiplash“ 13 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice“ Nothing ever dies. No one knows that better than Beetlejuice. Over three decades after Tim Burton’s beloved original, the director finally made a follow-up, and the result is one of

Netflix waited until Thanksgiving to drop its best original series since “Ripley” earlier this year, a very different kind of thriller featuring another magnetic performance from the incredible Colman Domingo. A cleverly modern riff on “The Fugitive,” “The Madness” is a show about a TV journalist who has been a part of our increasingly insane

At the top of wish lists for movie lovers this holiday season should be “CC40,” a lavishly assembled collection designed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Criterion, the most important company when it comes to preservation and appreciation of physical media. To celebrate their big event, Criterion undertook a fascinating project. For years, the company