Roger Ebert Reviews

It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have a film stealth drop on Netflix, but that’s what happens when you make as many flicks as the director of “Audition,” “13 Assassins,” and “Ichi the Killer” has helmed over his illustrious career. Seriously, there’s a very strong chance that he’s on a […]

I didn’t expect much from John Krasinski‘s fantasy “If” because the reviews were mostly unimpressed. But I found it quite easy to love because it’s written and directed in a sneakily effective way, presenting its peculiar situations as the sorts of things you would expect to see in a big-budget movie, even though the entire project seems to

Those who have crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell the tale describe a bright light, a warm embrace, or a peaceful out-of-body experience. They speak of seeing their loved ones, or at least feeling a familial presence, and of an end to physical pain. A Buddhist might recognize such a moment as

I don’t have much patience for people who lament how “they don’t make movies like ____ anymore.” Genres fall in and out of fashion—certain types of films come and go over time. But with the release of the new Apple TV+ limited series “Presumed Innocent,” I am reminded of a time when such a story

It’s impossible to think about “The Boys” without also thinking about the dying genre in which it finds itself. While the 2010s saw superhero films soaring to heights that not even a telepath could imagine, the 2020s ushered in a new era of theatrical viewing, as well as a new era of superhero film. From

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year in a film that’s already topped the Netflix charts, the defiantly goofy “Under Paris,” a movie that almost feels like it’s paying homage to the master in its nods to Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” before going full “Sharknado” in an insane final act that

Back in February, music and movie fans were shocked to hear that “American Beauty” director Sam Mendes was going to be making separate full-length biopics about each of the Beatles. Whether or not you thought that was a good idea, it certainly was unprecedented—and it immediately started speculation about who would play the band members

Sixty years ago, a moviegoing public still grieving JFK’s November 1963 assassination, experienced The Cold War U.S. and national leadership through the lens of the filmmakers who brought them cautionary tales and doomsday thrillers such as “The Best Man,” “Fail Safe,” “Seven Days in May,” and “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Based on Scott Turow’s 1987 legal thriller of the same name, “Presumed Innocent” stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a renowned prosecutor and family man. He’s shown as a loving father and husband, spending a beautiful sunny day with his wife Barbara (Ruth Negga) and their children. There’s just one problem: Sabich is about to

After helping as the second unit director on her father M. Night Shyamalan’s films “Old” and “Knock at the Cabin,” it’s only fitting that Ishana Night Shyamalan’s directorial debut, “The Watchers,” continues the family tradition of mining the horrors of single-setting locations. “The Watchers” focuses on Mina (Dakota Fanning) who gets stranded in a forest