Roger Ebert

Apple TV+’s “Mythic Quest” has been one of the streaming company’s best comedies, an underrated examination of the increasingly difficult wo...

This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year. Here are t...

It’s so easy to get cynical about the vaunted “oner.” A staple of 21st-century film and television these days, the ambitious one-shot sequen...

Here’s how you know you’re having a bad night: Your boss dies under questionable circumstances during a State Dinner at the White House, and...

A poignant, slow-fading comedy about two teams running out of time, Carson Lund’s “Eephus” chronicles one final game for an amateur New Engl...

Annapurna Sriram’s feature debut “Fu*cktoys,” about a sex worker earning a living while undoing a curse, is farce, psychodrama, theological...

While there are thrilling and sensational documentaries that feel right at home in the sun-baked and bustling streets of Austin (“We Are Sto...

On Fri. Jan. 20, 1961, CBS aired the first and only episode of a new game show, “You’re in the Picture.” A week later, the ill-fated show’s...

Links to all of our coverage this year, separated by author, in order of publication:BRIAN TALLERICOIt EndsThe ThreesomeCape...

When documentaries center on one person, breadth is often sacrificed for depth. Thankfully, for the most part, three docs at this year’s SXS...

I’ve found that at this year’s SXSW, it’s easier to spot the thematic throughlines that exist across projects. It’s a testament to the progr...

Man, Brian Tyree Henry can do anything. The star of “Atlanta,” “Causeway,” “Widows,” and “The Fire Inside” has become legitimately one of th...

Filmmakers often underestimate how important it can be to feel their love for their characters. When a writer/director sees the people on-sc...

A lot of films have tried to do their own version of the plot of 1993’s “Groundhog Day,” the first Hollywood feature that combined videogame...

A film finally hit this year’s relatively down SXSW like a bolt of lightning, producing multiple in-film applause breaks and a standing ovat...

The Oscar-nominated live-action short “A Lien,” directed by David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, is a cry for help. Not just from the characters. No...

Last month, I released my third book, “The Black Book: An Anthony Mann Reader.” (You can order your copy here.)To celebrate a month of M...

The doc program at SXSW reflects the left-of-center tone of both the festival and the city of Austin. Where else would you find documentarie...

“Steak ‘n Shake has gone Nazi” isn’t a sentence I ever expected to see, much less type. But here we are.On Friday, the social media acco...

The SXSW Film Festival launched on Friday night with a star-studded premiere of the new Amazon Prime Video sequel “Another Simple Favor,” fo...

Links to all of the content run during Women Writers Week 2025. FILM REVIEWS“Bloat” by Marya E. Gates“Eephus” by Peyton Robinson...

Thirty-four million one hundred eighty-six thousand six hundred ninety-eight minutes is another way of saying 65 years. Over that time span,...

The absurdist drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” begins with one of the most indelible images to grace the silver screen in recent memory: a...

There’s something about “Picnic at Hanging Rock” that makes one obsessive. Directed by Peter Weir and based on the novel of the same name by...

The bullet points for the final season of HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” are fairly straightforward: Siblings Jesse, Judy, and Kelvin Gemst...