Roger Ebert Reviews

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

“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

“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

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

In 1761, a 24-year-old penniless woman named Jeanne Bécu wrote a letter to a “dear friend,” telling him she loved him before getting to the point: “I don’t want to remain a shopgirl, but a little more my own mistress, and would therefore like to find someone to keep me.” She makes her pitch: “It

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What is certain is that he’s drawn a rich and multilayered performance from his daughter, Maya Hawke, in the starring role.  As director and co-writer alongside Shelby Gaines, Hawke tells the story of Flannery O’Connor by imagining that her work and her life were inextricably intertwined, with one constantly influencing