Roger Ebert Reviews

In 1974, film producer Bert Schneider – the producer behind such industry shifting New Hollywood hits as “Easy Rider, “Five Easy Pieces, and “The Last Picture Show” – put together a fake film production in order to help Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, escape to Cuba after a warrant is issued […]

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and apparently, the people who made this couldn’t, either. It reminds me of the legendary comment about “Nancy,” which, like “Garfield,” was originally a comic strip known for the spareness of its design and the helium-weight lightness of its humor. When asked to explain

With so many films playing in Cannes, from the competition to the sidebars like UCR and Fortnight, right through to the special presentations and other premieres, it’s often a point of amazement to ponder the sheer diversity that you get from these selections drawn from around the world. Despite the vast differences in production scope,

At this point in Cannes, exactly half the competition titles have premiered, which means that audiences are now primed to engage in a classic festival ritual. If you subject viewers to six days of some of the most demanding cinema on the planet, then suddenly confront them with a stylish and funny (yet sufficiently academic)

It takes a lot of courage to play a buffoon, and Dabney Coleman, who passed on May 16 at the age of 92,  had it in spades. Not many character actors of his constitution in 1980 — white, male, middle-aged, thick mustache parting only to deliver his baleful bass of a voice — would have dared

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall joined forces to tell the story of America’s push toward the pacific. “How The West Was Won” was a tremendous undertaking. Produced through the three-strip Cinerama process, it featured a deep ensemble of high-wattage stars—James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In this video, critic Isaac Feldberg joins Chaz to briefly discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” Paul Schrader’s “Oh Canada,” Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” and Agathe Riedingers’ “Wild Diamond.” Watch the video below. The Cannes Film Festival is

On Monday, May 20th at 2:00PM CEST Chaz Ebert will be moderating a panel at Roger Ebert Conference Center in the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. Entitled “Purpose-Driven Filmmaking: Empathy and the Movies,” panelists will discuss the trend toward purpose-driven filmmaking in today’s industry and how that is impacted by the diversity of

If someone told you that Cannes was showing an original musical about a ruthless cartel kingpin who wants to transition and secretly hires a top-flight lawyer to set the logistics in motion, which director would you guess was at the helm? Pedro Almodóvar? John Cameron Mitchell? The actual director of “Emilia Pérez” is Jacques Audiard,

For anyone who complained that Yorgos Lanthimos went soft with “Poor Things” and “The Favourite,” “Kinds of Kindness” revives the malicious tendencies that have run through even some of his best films. The movie reunites him with his early and frequent screenwriting collaborator Efthimis Filippou (“Dogtooth,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer“), and the shift in