Roger Ebert Reviews

“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in a world full of people who are proud to be awful. Directed by Paul Feig (“Spy”), it’s set in near-future Los Angeles, which begins to seem like a statement in itself as the movie goes along. There’s a statewide lottery. For some reason, the state […]

Remember the guy in “Eastern Condors” with the camo green bucket hat, who never dropped his cigarette, not even after submerging his head underwater? That’s Judy Wu, aka Jack Wang or “Filter” in the English dubbed version of star/director Sammo Hung’s exuberant Namsploitation “Dirty Dozen” variant, a strong candidate for one of the best action

When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied against them essentially boiled down to that they didn’t provide the same kind of sci-fi thrills as “Alien” and “Aliens,” two of the most beloved films of all time. Anyone who dislikes those films because they have too much philosophy and not enough

Fernando Mereilles and Katia Lund’s 2002 film “City of God” is a triumph. It earned four Academy Award nominations and wide praise by telling the story of a handful of young people growing up with and in one of Rio de Janeiro’s infamous favelas, the “City of God” (“Cidade de Deus” in its native Portuguese). It managed

The inspiring, heartfelt, and profound documentary “Daughters” swept this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary and the overall Festival Favorite Award. Co-directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, this beautiful film follows four girls and their incarcerated fathers as they prepare to attend a father-daughter dance held in Washington,

“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else. There’s something intrinsically appealing about watching two phenomenal actresses go head-to-head in an old-fashioned melodrama. Still, director Benoit Delhomme (the excellent cinematographer who shot “A Most Wanted Man,” “At Eternity’s Gate,” and many more) can’t quite figure out what movie he’s making. At

Adapted from the 2013 Carl Hiaasen novel of the same name, Apple TV+’s “Bad Monkey” is a Florida-set dramedy that follows scorned detective Andrew Yancy (Vince Vaughn). Yancy was forced to transfer to Miami after he rammed his ex-girlfriend’s new beau’s golf cart into a lake; his tumultuous life continues to spiral until he’s kicked off

Patient and kindhearted, a painted storybook in motion, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is a lovely glimpse of what animation can be. Directed and cowritten by Belgian moviemaker Benoît Chieux (with writing partner Alain Gagnol), it’s a work that has a lot of influences, from “Yellow Submarine” and “Fantastic Planet” and “The Wizard of Oz” to Dr.

When I was in college I worked at a Dallas movie theater, the Inwood. It was an art house theater that mainly showed foreign films, independents, and some repertory titles. During my workdays there, most of the time I was working at the concession stand. But sometimes they’d put me in the box office.  In case anybody very young

“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much bigger because it puts all the money on the screen, as studio executives like to say, and that will make people want to trust first-time director Julien Hayet-Kerknawi with bigger budgets moving forward. But it seems more likely that it’ll be a Dwayne Johnson action