Roger Ebert

Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is the Boldest Fantasy Show of the Year
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The Rings of Power expands and improves in a confident second season.
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“EA Sports College Football 25” is a True Sports Game Phenomenon
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We usually devote our video game coverage at RogerEbert.com to titles with a connection to cinema, whether it’s a series that inspired movies like “Resident Evil” or titles that drew upon a history of movie adventures to tell their tales...
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Venice Film Festival 2024: Prepping for the Biennale
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A look at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, the kickoff to Fall Fest Season.
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Wrap-Up of a Special Event
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Locarno isn’t a film festival. It’s a pilgrimage. My journey to the legendary festival, which celebrated its 77th edition this year, involved planes, trains, and automobiles to land in Milan, Italy before crossing the border into Locarno. The odyssey felt...
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Albert Brooks Enriches Criterion Collection with “Real Life” and “Mother”
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The Criterion Collection may have surprised some collectors when they announced last May that they would be releasing two Albert Brooks movies on their label in August: “Real Life” and “Mother.” “Real Life” was not a surprise. An HD treatment...
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The Ambition of “Star Wars Outlaws” Overwhelms Its Flaws
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The ambition of Ubisoft’s “Star Wars Outlaws” constantly battles with its own execution in a game that’s invigorating and frustrating in equal measure. It’s a title that feels like it has boundless potential, but also traps you in the same...
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FX’s “English Teacher” Gets an Incomplete Grade for Now
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When it comes to comedy, FX has more than earned the benefit of the doubt. Not only have they displayed a willingness to embrace creative voices with all-timers like “Better Things” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” but they’re arguably...
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Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is Less Cozy, Still Fun
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Hulu's Emmy darling and smash hit is back with more murder, but some serious undertones too.
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13 Films Illuminate Locarno Film Festival’s Columbia Pictures Retrospective
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The hardest part about attending a film festival strictly as a critic, is knowing you have little chance of seeing the wealth of retrospective titles programmed. It’s just so difficult to divide your time away from the newer titles, mostly...
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Decoded
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The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of reasons, mostly in spite of its conventional and hackneyed depiction of a troubled mathematician who deciphers encrypted messages for the mainland army. For starters, “Decoded” provides a dramatic...
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