Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert's Top 10 lists each year always contained a few surprising picks that said a lot about what he valued in moviegoing and criticism. One of the things I liked most about his writing was that he didn’t seem...

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in “The First Omen,” a stunning prequel to Richard Donner’s timeless horror classic, “The Omen” (1976), about the evildoings of a demonic orphan adopted by a pair of unsuspecting...

In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences the world through sound. In his ears, everyday noises become symphonies of life, a daily rhythm that distracts him from class and his girlfriend Haley (Francesca Reale). His...

To an extent, stories of Tom Ripley have not been about his actions as much as the clean-up afterward. Steven Zaillian, the brilliant writer behind “Schindler’s List” and “The Night Of,” leans into this aspect of the Patricia Highsmith character,...

Two years after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival, “The People’s Joker” finally opens this Friday. If that sounds like a long time to wait, consider for a second that, for many who attended the movie’s Midnight Madness premiere,...

Lee Chang-dong began his career in the arts as a novelist and “novelistic” in all the richness and implication of that term is how I find myself thinking of his films. Asked to write a script for Park Kwang-su’s “To...

Set in 1980s Tuscany, the ethereal romantic drama "La chimera" from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher follows the plights of Arthur (Josh O'Connor), a heartbroken British archaeologist who uses a divining rod to locate Etruscan artifacts, which he, along with a band...

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”) is a 1903 short story by Henry James called “The Beast in the Jungle.” Seen by some James scholars as an autobiographical expression of rue for a life...

What a pleasure it was seeing the Pixar movie “Luca” on a big screen on Easter Sunday – and not just because it was part of AMC Theaters’ “Fan Faves” series, which screens older (typically family) movies for $5 a...

“The thirst for knowledge is a very commendable thing. Though I do believe that when you hear the explanation you shall laugh riotously, slappin' your knee and perhaps even wipin' away a giddy tear, relieved of your former concern.” When...