Roger Ebert

On May 14, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway. That means the annual tradition of glamorous red carpets and starry premieres is nearly upon us—not to mention the unveiling of the winner of the Palme d’Or,...

Last year, we highlighted a pair of great releases from the U.K.-based distributor Second Sight in the 4K drops for David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” and David Robert Mitchell’s “It Follows.” With their early 2024 releases, it’s become clear...

Wagner Moura’s characters are accustomed to being in high-pressure situations. Perhaps best known for his role in the gritty crime saga “Elite Squad” and playing Pablo Escobar in “Narcos,” the 47-year-old Brazilian actor is now part of the year’s most...

“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type 1 diabetes,” says Larissa Zimberoff, author of the investigative book Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change the Way We Eat and one of the many interview subjects...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more worthy, time-tested miniseries about America’s founding than HBO’s “John Adams”—a riveting, elegant chronicle of one of our nation’s most famed architects. It’s a subject writer Kirk Ellis can’t seem to get away from;...

Dear France, Our culture is failing. It’s always failing. We worship the wrong things and ignore great stuff that’s right under our noses.  You know this about us. And you’ve often been there to say, “Hey, buddy—look down for a...

The unnamed narrator (Hoa Xuande) of “The Sympathizer” flees the fall of Saigon as a refugee and lands up in sunny Los Angeles in the late ‘70s. Like many immigrants in America, he suffers racist insults, works jobs he doesn’t...

Adapting open-world games can be a great challenge for film and TV creatives because they don’t have the handy-dandy narrative skeleton to convey what made a game so successful. How do you adapt a game with such little storytelling structure...

There's a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After All,” a documentary about the Indigo Girls. The duo (Amy Ray and Emily Saliers) have been performing together, after all, for 40 years. The phenomenon of the Indigo...

Every film from David and Nathan Zellner—the writing/directing duo behind “Damsel” and “Kumiko the Treasure Hunter”—has a moment when the laughter stops, and the grim reality their protagonists must face sets in. The brothers adore misfits, finding space to center...