Roger Ebert

For some of us, Opening Day in Major League Baseball is a sacred thing—the unofficial start of spring, the launch of another season of the world’s greatest sport, that special time each year when we still believe that our crummy...

EMBARGO, 3/28 11AM Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures has walked a different path, and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” continues the tradition. This one is a direct sequel to 2021’s “Godzilla vs. Kong,”...

It's such a pleasure watching the greats continue to be great over the course of a long and productive life. It's also a source of comfort, because I'm no longer a young man, and I worry about whether I'll still...

There is something instantly kinetic about seeing Giancarlo Esposito in a crime drama. He often plays people of great stillness, and yet there's motion behind his eyes. You can see him thinking and feeling. Yes, of course, this on-screen persona is related...

There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative voice that reduces the life story of its subject to the basic beats, using standard techniques instead of embracing that which made this person's story worth telling in...

Over Zoom, David Krumholtz flashes a friendly, bashful smile, his demeanor several shades warmer than the character he plays in the movie he’s here to promote. Named after the depressive malcontent at its center, “Lousy Carter” is a wry, off-kilter...

1999 was one of the very best movie years, producing masterpiece after masterpiece, and even the movies that were less than that still made viewers feel as if they were practically drowning in a sea of amazing work. Brian Raftery's...

In the opening shot of Jordan Peele’s “Us” is a curious invitation: A Rubix Cube, placed on the shelf just underneath a modest movie collection, is practically a winking acknowledgment by Peele of the appetite “Get Out” stirred in critics,...

Based on Georgia Hunter’s novel of the same name, a fictionalization of a true story, Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones” is a harrowing tale of resilience and family in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. The improbable story concerns...

Regina Taylor wants your mixtape. But before you start making links and burning CDs, this isn’t your typical sampler. It's a community-based project open to students with an aim for inspiring dialogue through the arts. “This is an invitation for all people—students,...