Roger Ebert Reviews

In 2021, it was astonishing to see that, out of all game franchises, “League of Legends” came out swinging as a pioneer to the current “great video game adaptation” boom via the Netflix animated series “Arcane.” Showrunners Christian Linke and Alex Yee successfully fleshed out a fluid steampunk world fueled by class themes, magic, and […]

Coming off of the wild success of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” comes a Max series set in the same world, thousands of years before it. Originally ordered in 2019, then called “Dune: Sisterhood,” the retitled “Dune: Prophecy” has had its fair share of setbacks. Delays and creative overhauls have plagued it from the start,

Across the three features he’s made to date, Tyler Taormina has emerged as a true American independent, with an inquisitive eye and extraordinary depth of feeling for adolescent rites of passage that unfold — poignantly, mysteriously, with a sense of romantic possibility — amid the suburbs’ lonely, nocturnal stretches. His subliminally menacing feature debut, “Ham

Apple TV loves to spend oodles of money on prestigious sci-fi projects like “Dark Matter” and “Foundation,” but their best in this subgenre by some stretch is Graham Yost’s riveting “Silo.” The first season of this adaptation of the books by Hugh Howey played like a timely riff on philosophical sci-fi noirs like “Blade Runner,”

As you read this, 94-year-old filmmaker Clint Eastwood‘s “Juror #2” is playing on 458 screens in France, where it opened at number one at the box office, according to reported figures. The movie is playing on just 50 screens in his home country, which also happens to be the home of its releasing company, Warner

I am always excited by the return of Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago’s fall celebration of the fruits of Black cinema. But this year, admittedly, for a personal reason, I’m even more hyped for the festival, which this year takes place from Nov 8 thru Nov 21. This time around, I have the immense privilege

Don Hertzfeldt’s “ME” is available on Vimeo On-Demand.  Don Hertzfeldt’s “ME” will feel familiar to the filmmaker’s fans and admirers, with its expressive stick figures serving as our protagonists, its depiction of technological breakthroughs that cause societal disarray, and journeys through time and space that warrant repeated viewings just to take in all the ideas

Despite its expansive scale, Alessandra Lacorazza’s “In the Summers” thrives in the smaller moments, prioritizing the ways we wear complex emotions in our bodies far better than we can ever hope to articulate through words. The film, which won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, focuses on sisters, Eva and Violeta, who every