Roger Ebert Reviews

Like Carl Franklin, John Dahl, and Daniel Minahan, Keith Gordon is a director who seems to only work in TV despite having made 5-star films. Gordon’s got nothing like the reputation he deserves after becoming one of the most sensitive, sensuous adapters of great novels and a fierce stylist to boot. He created these gorgeously fraught […]

Jane Schoenbrun’s second feature is a gnawing search for belonging in the static spaces between analog pixels. They stir dreamlike logic into scavenged memories, especially in a scene early in the film that grasps at how the medium of television’s celestial radiance can grant wide-eyed salvation in even the darkest room. A young Owen (Ian

On Wednesday, May 1st, 2024, FACETS will honor Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, at their annual Screen Gems Benefit. Taking place at the Arts Club of Chicago (201 E. Ontario Sreet.), the event runs from 6:00–9:00 pm and includes an open bar, light dinner, online auction, and special conversation between Jacqueline

It was the summer of 1994, and George Lucas had an announcement: For the first time since 1983, there would be a new “Star Wars” movie. In fact, there were going to be three.  “I’ve got the stories done,” Lucas said, although he quickly added, “but I have to write the screenplay, so that’s a

The German film “The Teachers’ Lounge,” which was recently nominated for Best International Film Oscar and played this year’s Ebertfest, is a riveting school drama about how one seemingly simple matter becomes quite complicated for everyone involved. No matter much how its good-willed heroine tries for resolving this increasingly tricky situation, things keep getting messier

Robert Eggers’ third film “The Northman” sticks in the mind. Released in 2022, it’s the longest and by far most expensive film by Eggers—a bloody, glowering epic fantasy, loosely based on the myth that inspired William Shakespeare to write Hamlet, with dollops of the original “Conan the Barbarian” and heavy metal album covers. It continues the director’s streak of films that

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Act of Killing““Amadeus““Anyone But You““Happy Gilmore““The Killing Fields““Knocked Up”“Lucy““Strange Way of Life““Suzume““The Thin Blue Line“ 11 NEW ON BLU-RAY/DVD “Andor” (and Disney+ Shows) There seems to be a trend back towards physical media (at least I hope so), partially due to the realization over the last year or so that

The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say, a concentration camp during the Holocaust—is a tough pill to swallow, even at the best of times. And yet, Lali Sokolov and Gita Furman, two Slovakian prisoners at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, did indeed meet at the camp, fall in love, and survive the camps

I must admit that I went into the third season of Max’s award-winning “Hacks” expecting to see a show on the other side of its peak. How do you keep this premise fresh for that many seasons, especially when it ended with what could have been finality last season? Much to my surprise, the writers

“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a clueless moneyed entrepreneur muses during a video chat with his two shell-shocked subordinates in the new film from writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. In the context of the actual conversation the sentiment is even more inane than it sounds on the face of it. And