Roger Ebert

"Smoke" was the perfect title for a movie written by the late Paul Auster. Not just because it's set in and around a Brooklyn cigar store but because the smoke has a shape that is ever-changing and ephemeral: within moments of...

To watch an Oscar Micheaux film is to see the miracle of a tragedy.  Though Michaeux produced over forty pictures — spanning the pre-classical silent era and through the advent of sound — only eighteen such works survive (nearly all...

In “The Fall Guy,” Ryan Gosling plays Colt, a veteran stunt performer whose real life becomes an action movie once he’s tasked with finding an egotistical movie star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who’s gone missing. Colt jumps over a wall of fire...

There’s a decent movie buried in the bloated “Dark Matter,” the latest expensive venture from the good folks at Apple TV+, a streamer that's developed something of an identity as a platform for adult sci-fi with shows like “Silo,” “Constellation,” “Invasion,”...

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one British, one the proprietor of a small, very narrow business, happy with family and friends but lonely and a little lost, one a global superstar, but lonely and...

There's such a rich pleasure in diving deep into the work of one filmmaker: you watch them perfect their craft while seeing which themes and motifs anchor their body of work through time. Such was the case as previewed the...

One of my very favorite television genres is Jeff Daniels conducting business while chewing scenery. Whether playing a news anchor in "The Newsroom" or a detective in "American Rust," he always carries himself with such studious charisma. David E. Kelley's "A Man in...

Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for a Japanese TV show that put young people in difficult situations and filmed them for entertainment. By the luck of the draw, he won the chance to pursue...

Less than two years after it premiered, “Interview with the Vampire,” AMC’s bold, delightfully garish Anne Rice adaptation returns for another bloody installment. With a new Parisian locale and a recast Claudia, “Interview with the Vampire” continues to deliver vibrant...

Shot in dreamy, textured 16mm, the intimate and desire-filled Lithuanian film "Slow" is not your typical romance. Sparks fly when passionate contemporary dancer Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė) meets ruminative sign language interpreter Dovyda (Kęstutis Cicėnas). Their chemistry is so immediate and...