Roger Ebert Reviews

Director Justin Kurzel’s films have disarmingly explored the ways ideological radicalization coupled with social exclusion can lead to great violence. His latest film, the police procedural “The Order,” is the finest distillation of his ability to shade genre thrills with disturbing, real-world relevance. Based on the non-fiction title The Silent Brotherhood, the film is set […]

A gleefully gory homage to coming of age in the ’90s, “Y2K,” the directorial debut of “SNL” vet Kyle Mooney, is as much a love letter to a specific period and also a warning against the trappings of nostalgia. Taking place on New Year’s Eve in 1999, the film takes its elevator pitch of “What

“This is Absolutely Not the True Story of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” The opening crawl of all six episodes of Prime Video’s “The Sticky” is meant to make clear that this stranger-than-fiction comedic thriller plays fast and loose with the truth. But it also draws a parallel to its most blatant inspiration, the

“Whether or not you believe in God, you don’t lie when you pray.” So says Richard Gere who plays aging documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife in director Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada.” Schrader’s films have never shied away from depicting how the divine has a role in the innate messiness of human experience. Still, there’s an earnestness

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