Roger Ebert

“There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress. This is not one of them.” That is how Millie Bobby Brown’s sumptuous new fantasy film begins, so we know from the start that there...

For multi-hyphenate storyteller Brit Marling, writing is like harnessing a beating heart. Marling, who only days earlier had been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for “A Murder at the End of the World,” describes to RogerEbert.com a writing...

Among my communities, women can predict the future. Aunties know when someone is pregnant. Cousins can tell which path to take at a crossroads. Mums dream of what is yet to come, and grandmas hold memories of pasts they never...

Ever since Elsa Lanchester lifted her salt-and-pepper head in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” filmmakers have been trying to figure out how to nail the feminist take on the classic horror story. The brutish strength and massive size of Boris Karloff’s...

If you thought that the Hollywood union talks were over with the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike ending last year, Women’s History Month marks the beginning of another fair contract negotiation with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, this time...

“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” was in heavy rotation at our house when my daughter’s age was still in the single digits. She enjoyed the strong friendship between the two powerful female characters (much easier to understand than the romances), the brassy...

Sofia Coppola attributes the ignition point of her career as a filmmaker to when she fell in love with Jeffrey Eugenides’ 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides and decided to adapt it lest someone else get there first and ruin it....

(This article will contain spoilers for the original “Avatar: The Last Airbender” show, as well as for “Princess Mononoke,” “She-Ra,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Babylon 5,” “Star Wars: Rebels,” “Treasure Planet,” “Teen Titans,” and the three “Star Wars” trilogies.) Redemption...

Before Judd Apatow cornered the comedy market on movies about permanently adolescent men, there was Peter Farrelly, whose movies with his brother Bobby could range from sweetly funny—if at times inappropriate—like "Dumb and Dumber" or "There's Something About Mary" to...

Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie?   The trilogy ended in satisfying fashion in 2016 with the cuddly, constantly hungry Po finally coming into his own in his unlikely role as the Dragon Warrior. He is both the student and the teacher. He has...