Roger Ebert

There’s nothing quite like the Nathan Fielder stare. Those cold, dead eyes, the expressionless face, his tall, lanky body standing motionles...

Apple TV’s new comedy-drama “Government Cheese” boasts a talented cast. The story is witty, filled with religious references and commentary...

The latest film by David Cronenberg is his most personal in decades. Written after the death of his wife of 43 years, it’s about the unendin...

Presenting interdisciplinary research and sharing concerns about their discipline, members of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies met i...

A case can be made that the recent announcement of Amazon gaining creative control of the James Bond series from producers Barbara Broccoli...

Thierry Frémaux and Iris Knobloch announced the lineup for the 78th Cannes Film Festival this morning, confirming some suspicions of what wo...

Ramy Youssef once said that the more specific something is, the more universal it becomes. His eponymous series, about the lives of Egyptian...

CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL Announces Full Program Lineup, Special Guests and Recipients of 2025 Emerging Critics Grant12th Annual Fes...

Alex Garland’s worlds, even those in the more fantastical realms of “Ex Machina,” “Dredd,” and “Annihilation,” find as many ways as possible...

Val Kilmer died last week of pneumonia after a long struggle against the cancer that took his voice. He left behind an extraordinary body of...

I find it challenging to review “found footage” documentaries where the primary focus is on the footage itself. You watch it. It makes sense...

Anyone who has played the games on which HBO’s “The Last of Us” is based knows that things are about to get intense. Without spoiling a sing...

In Stephen Cognetti’s “Hell House” films, a character carrying the camera, and us within it, walks for what feels like an insufferably elast...

ROGER EBERT: JUNE 18, 1942 – APRIL 4, 2013Roger famously said that movies are a machine that generates empathy. What he found fascinatin...

Michael Shannon’s feature directorial debut, “Eric LaRue,” is of a piece with the anguished psychological dramas for which he’s acclaimed as...

When Microsoft acquired developer Compulsion Games in 2018, all eyes were on the studio to see what it could deliver at the release of its l...

When he died on Tuesday at age 65 of pneumonia, everyone had their image of Val Kilmer at hand to personally mourn. There was the wonderfull...

Apple TV+’s new series “Your Friends and Neighbors” opens with the image of its protagonist, Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm), laid out in a pool of...

CHAMPAIGN, IL (April 1, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the final three films screening at thi...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Someone either dies, or goes to Hell, or is otherwise handpicked to become a bounty hunter for—get...

This Friday, April 4th, we will mark the 2025 Day4Empathy, 11 years since the passing of Roger Ebert. Roger famously said that movies were a...

Every once in a while, a game comes along that ignites a culturally divisive fire. Do a Google search on “The Last of Us, Part II” to have y...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX“Black Hawk Down““Blade Runner““Den of Thieves 2: Pantera““Do the Right Thing““How to Have Sex““Kraven the Hunter““The...

Director/co-screenwriter Karen Morey and co-screenwriter/star Terence Chen wanted to make a romantic comedy about romantic comedies, a meta-...

Death and desire make for strange bedfellows in the films of Alain Guiraudie. Predominantly set in cloistered, rural communities whose c...