Roger Ebert

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a tricky thought exercise. What if you find out you’ll die at a ripe old age? That sure would make retirement investing and travel plans easier. But what if...

I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software and 2K Games’ “Borderlands,” enraptured by its addictive structure, one that encourages exploration, teamwork, and a constant pursuit of new weapons to unleash on waves of enemies (I've...

The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise is often louder than dialogue. This is a truth we all experience, but it is challenging to pull off in film, particularly if the subterranean moments are small...

In India Donaldson’s riveting “Good One,” a father-daughter hiking trip takes an uncomfortable turn after the shifting power dynamics of their relationship are gradually brought to the fore, first testing their bond then exposing its limits.   For 17-year-old Sam (Lily...

I still remember the shock of seeing the first trailer for Michael Mann's 2004 movie "Collateral," starring Tom Cruise as a hitman named Vincent on assignment in Los Angeles, and Jamie Foxx as Max, the cabdriver that Vincent holds hostage and turns...

"What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed her down the stairs but it's okay because really it was just an accident?" Questions like this are at the heart of "It Ends with Us,” based on...

San Diego Comic-Con is known for its activations, and the best of 2024 were, by far, presentations by Paramount+ and 20th Century Fox. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, for the second year in a row, Paramount+ used Happy Does...

Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds like it’s straight out of an iMovie effects...

"The Sixth Sense" is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he's been one ever since. It's also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading...

RogerEbert.com Co-Founder and Publisher Chaz Ebert recently spoke to journalist Randi Mazzella about her bestselling book It's Time to Give a FECK:Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness, and we are reprinting what was chosen by the editors of Next Avenue as the...