Roger Ebert Reviews

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Dheepan““The Fast and the Furious” (and most of the franchise)“Focus““Rob Peace““Silverado““The Sisters Brothers““Superbad““Take Shelter““The Whale““Whiplash“ 13 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice“ Nothing ever dies. No one knows that better than Beetlejuice. Over three decades after Tim Burton’s beloved original, the director finally made a follow-up, and the result is one of […]

Netflix waited until Thanksgiving to drop its best original series since “Ripley” earlier this year, a very different kind of thriller featuring another magnetic performance from the incredible Colman Domingo. A cleverly modern riff on “The Fugitive,” “The Madness” is a show about a TV journalist who has been a part of our increasingly insane

At the top of wish lists for movie lovers this holiday season should be “CC40,” a lavishly assembled collection designed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Criterion, the most important company when it comes to preservation and appreciation of physical media. To celebrate their big event, Criterion undertook a fascinating project. For years, the company

Paramount+ and Showtime’s “The Agency” doesn’t have the spy action that fans of “Mission: Impossible” or James Bond may expect, but I found the two episodes sent to press consistently riveting due to the sharp dialogue, incredible ensemble, and tight filmmaking. In an era of broad escapism like “The Night Agent” (which has value too,

At the end of Hayao Miyazaki’s visually stunning “Howl’s Moving Castle,” the titular Howl bemoans a sudden ache in his chest. The protagonist, Sophie, succinct yet joyful, replies, “A heart’s a heavy burden.” The poignancy of the line demonstrates Miyazaki’s ability to enchant viewers with staggering artistry and spellbinding narratives that both whisk us away

A cop, tortured by memories of child abuse and unable to connect with those who love her, returns to her hometown to try and address her past pain. Her obsession with doing her job well is her sole driving force, so much so that everything else in her life is sacrificed at the altar of

I’ve never felt prouder to be a Chicagoan than when attending the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival. As Chicago’s premier Black film festival, Black Harvest serves as a homecoming for the voices and stories of Black people from the city and across the diaspora and the world. This year, I felt a profound connection to

One era’s trash is another era’s treasure. This becomes truer the deeper we get into the era of computers and automated, technology-assisted production. I’ve been thinking about this because of the existence of the nostalgia cable network MeTV Toons. It runs nothing but older animation—mainly stuff produced between the 1940s and the 1990s for movie