Roger Ebert

If I were to explain to you the setup of Marisa Kavtaradze’s “Slow,” my guess is that it would lead many of you to more or less assume most of what is to follow. However, one of the many nice...

In 1761, a 24-year-old penniless woman named Jeanne Bécu wrote a letter to a "dear friend," telling him she loved him before getting to the point: "I don’t want to remain a shopgirl, but a little more my own mistress,...

“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean cop thrillers featuring a tank-sized boxer nicknamed the “monster cop.” Somehow, these movies aren’t as fun as that suggests. Ma Dong-seok, aka Don Lee, plays Seok-do, the only...

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble during the run-up to prom, is a raunchy, R-rated but warmhearted teen comedy. It operates in a mode that’s been around for decades but reached its 21st century...

"I've been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people confuse me with the characters I play in films ... like I'm an empty vessel onto which they project their fantasies and their shortcomings, but I don't need...

"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...