Roger Ebert

An Invitation to a Film Party: The 13th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival
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Highlights of one of the best film events on the Chicago calendar.
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Prime Video’s Lush, Ambitious “The House of the Spirits” Does Right By Isabel Allende’s Masterpiece
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Allende’s classic is finally given the prestige treatment it has long deserved.
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Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
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For male filmmakers, female pop stars are the closest thing we have to angels in our midst. And angels aren’t meant to be possessed, merely venerated.
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Love’s in Need of Love Today: Reflections on EbertFest, Cinema, and Empathy
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Reflections on the last year of the festival, and what it means to celebrate Roger and the movies.
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An Act of Translation: David Lowery on “Mother Mary”
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An interview with the director of A24's latest about friendship, location, and how the T-1000 influenced its strangest element.
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Sony’s Exclusive “Saros” is One of the Year’s Must-Play Games
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So many fun ways to die over and over again.
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Apple’s Twisted “Widow’s Bay” is Like Nothing Else on Television
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It's never anything less than fascinating.
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Season 2 of Netflix’s “Running Point” Is An Easy Layup
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“Running Point” seems poised to stay in contention for multiple seasons to come.
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DOC10 Spotlights Some of the Best Documentaries You’ll See This Year
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A preview of the year's best non-fiction film festival.
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Netflix’s Animated “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85” is an Insulting Waste of Time
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Every chance to do something inventive and interesting in “Tales from ‘85” is ignored for lazy fan-fic writing, slack plotting, and inconsistent characters.
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