Roger Ebert

As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to the power of imagination, so highly that whenever a friend or loved one reproduces, part of my gift to the baby is a copy of the...

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup of M. Night Shyamalan’s near-miss of a thriller “Trap,” a movie that actually feels less like the Night Brand than a lot of his twisty ventures, a sort...

Earlier this year a movie was released and forgotten in such quick succession there's a strong chance you didn't know it existed. That's fine, I almost missed it myself, except for one thing: I was looking for it. Why? It...

There's never a time when I don't feel like watching the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies, the first of which was released August 1, 2014. That's ten years ago this week. Time flies when a film is a classic. This...

While many have already reviewed the incredibly successful “Shadow of the Erdtree,” the multi-hour DLC for the smash hit 2022 game “Elden Ring,” I’ve been wandering the Lands Between and the Land of Shadow, obsessively trying to take in everything...

Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC, to look at the historic sights. As the documentary “War Game” begins, we see a man looking through his windshield at the Capitol building and then taking pictures...

Apple TV’s “Women in Blue” / “Las Azules” is a flawed show. The acting is uneven, with some cast members going full telenovela while others stay in realist drama. Worse, it’s clear that this is a show about women created...

Fantasia's not all blood and guts; there are plenty of laughs to be had among the fest's voluminous genre offerings. Horror and comedy, after all, go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or machetes and human flesh. The three films...

On Mondays at the Wayfarer Studios offices, there’s a tradition during meetings in which everyone in attendance has to answer the same question: What’s something that’s bringing you joy that has nothing to do with work or family? This is...

The musical biopic genre is so staid, so humdrum, it’s difficult to imagine anyone having a wildly different take on it. In his directorial debut, British-Irish writer/director Rich Peppiatt, however, doesn’t just want to dismantle structures. He wants to obliterate...