Roger Ebert Reviews

At this moment, you’re likely floating in the Nowhere Stream. There’s no telling how long you’ve been there. Maybe minutes, maybe hours. Maybe longer than you’d care to admit. The Nowhere Stream offers so much comfort and so much promise; it’s no wonder we’re all floating in its cool waters, happily content to go where […]

For filmmaking brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, every movie is a journey. The directors behind acclaimed hybrid projects like “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” blur the line between fiction and nonfiction, presenting real situations that have been preplanned, allowing their characters (often played by non-actors) the space to discover authentic moments. The results are

We are incredibly proud to present an excerpt from contributor Glenn Kenny‘s new book The World is Yours: The Making of Scarface, available this week. The official synopsis from Amazon is below, followed by the excerpt. Get a copy here. The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew.

One of the great challenges of a long-running TV show is finding ways to refresh itself. British sci-fi staple “Doctor Who” has long held the answer to its sixty-year longevity in regeneration: its title character, the Doctor, a swashbuckling adventurer through time and space, is an alien who can refresh his body when he dies,

There’s still a misconception among some that summer movie season starts around Memorial Day, the big three-day weekend that, for most humans, is when the warm-weather months officially get going. But passionate filmgoers know better: For decades now, the first weekend in May has been the launching pad for the season’s first potential blockbuster. (More

“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean cop thrillers featuring a tank-sized boxer nicknamed the “monster cop.” Somehow, these movies aren’t as fun as that suggests. Ma Dong-seok, aka Don Lee, plays Seok-do, the only memorable constant in this episodic action franchise, which began in 2017 with the hit “The

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble during the run-up to prom, is a raunchy, R-rated but warmhearted teen comedy. It operates in a mode that’s been around for decades but reached its 21st century zenith in “Superbad” and got a social media-era upgrade in “Booksmart.” It was written by

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people confuse me with the characters I play in films … like I’m an empty vessel onto which they project their fantasies and their shortcomings, but I don’t need to settle scores. I’m reclaiming my soul. I write as a woman searching for another

“Smoke” was the perfect title for a movie written by the late Paul Auster. Not just because it’s set in and around a Brooklyn cigar store but because the smoke has a shape that is ever-changing and ephemeral: within moments of creating it, it’s gone. And it’s produced through the transmutation of matter from one form

If I were to explain to you the setup of Marisa Kavtaradze’s “Slow,” my guess is that it would lead many of you to more or less assume most of what is to follow. However, one of the many nice things about the film, which was Lithuania’s Oscar submission for this year’s International Feature Film