Roger Ebert Reviews

Whatever impulse prompted Francis Ford Coppola to combine elements of Virgil, Livy, Shakespeare, “Vertigo,” “The Fountainhead,” the career of Robert Moses, film noir, and science fiction into a single feature—well, it clearly wasn’t the most actionable impulse. The extremely long-in–the-making “Megalopolis” has been on his brain for 40 years or more. The reportedly self-financed movie […]

Far out in the west passage of a Wyoming cattle ranch, dark and looming and as elusive as Brigadoon, lies a hole. A vast, black chasm surrounded by swirling energy, which sends anything and everything that falls down it through the obsidian abyss of time. Where it might end up, nobody knows; but most of

Editor’s note: Every spring we say farewell to the latest trio of University of Illinois College of Media Roger Ebert Fellows, whose work includes reports filed for rogerebert.com. The 2023-24 Fellows–Hanna Brazas-Mata, Caroline Tadla and Stephanie Wayda—talked to Ebertfest participants late last month about what the Virginia Theatre-located festival, a 25-year tradition, offers that others

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development, including the introduction of the jury, led by Greta Gerwig. Watch the video below, followed by the transcript. We’re back in the South of France for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Although it’s not

I was fortunate enough to meet Roger and Chaz Ebert in 2010 as they interviewed directors to pilot their upcoming public television review program. But as I mentioned to Roger, even though we were meeting for the first time, I felt like he had already been a mentor of mine for many years. I had

The following table of contents contains Chaz Ebert‘s video dispatches from Cannes 2024, produced by herself and Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, and written dispatches by Robert Daniels, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber, Isaac Feldberg, Scott Dummler, and Lisa Nesselson.  Video Dispatches: A Preview of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival by Chaz Ebert Cannes 2024 Video #2: The

The Shondaland/Netflix juggernaut that is “Bridgerton” is back for a third season, after taking a fruitful detour via its “Queen Charlotte” prequel. This new season, focusing on the love story of Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton, is sure to please fans of the series as it features all the stylistic elements

Of the 22 films in this year’s Cannes competition, the first two to screen have a lot in common. Both are portraits of strong-willed women willing to be exploited to find a way out of poverty. Both films doggedly stick to their heroines’ point of view, and both heroines prove more credulous than is strictly

“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it epic,” says an undaunted Chris Hemsworth. It’s a call to action that comes toward the end of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller’s apocalyptic epic western prequel to “Mad Max: Fury Road” that could, of course, be directed at Miller himself. Because

Roger Corman, who died last week at 98, was so important and influential that a thorough account of his impact would require a book (there have already been many – and documentaries, too). But the most impressive achievement of all is his mentorship of young actors, writers, and filmmakers, many of whom would go on to