Roger Ebert

What color is music anyway... Beyoncé dropped her new album "Cowboy Carter" just after midnight Friday morning, and as expected, the BeyHive went wild. But the significance of the act goes beyond just music, it is also a cultural invitation to stop putting  artists in a tight box,...

In processing the news that we have lost Louis Gossett, Jr. it is striking that the part that won him the Academy Award in 1983 is not the only role of his that comes to mind. With a whopping 200...

Dear Ebertfest Movie Lovers, In celebration of our 25th Anniversary, several of our longtime audience members have shared their testimonials with us about what drew them to Ebertfest and why they keep coming back. These snapshots of what makes Ebertfest...

To call "The Listener" minimalist would be an understatement. Shot a year into the pandemic, it played film festivals in 2022 and is only now getting a proper release, and once you watch it you can see why it wasn't treated as...

To paraphrase everyone’s favorite AMC Theaters spokesperson, “We come to kaiju films to see giant monsters beat each other up,” and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” the fifth installment of Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise, delivers the creature fights in spades....

When we are first introduced to John Sugar (Colin Farrell), he relays that he doesn’t “like hurting people.” It’s during an early act of violence that he utters this, and he continues to relay this fact throughout different episodes, often...

“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.   The core of it ultimately may reveal itself to be somewhat familiar: Newly released from prison for his crimes, a thief returns home to pull off the big job that will finally make him and his friends rich. But through the dreamlike...

After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and “Memory,” I had just about given up on Liam Neeson, an actor of undeniable quality who seemed to have stopped actually reading scripts all the way through before...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX "The Accountant""Alone""The Autopsy of Jane Doe""Bodies Bodies Bodies""Four Daughters""Godzilla""Pineapple Express""Step Brothers""To Kill a Tiger""Wanderlust" 15 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD "The Abyss" James Cameron's 1989 blockbuster has been one of the hardest films to find on physical media...

Editor’s note: Earlier this month, the 2023-24 University of Illinois College of Media Roger Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO. It’s an ideal first festival for any moviegoer, its documentary focus allowing for a wide range...