Roger Ebert

A look at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, the kickoff to Fall Fest Season.

Locarno isn’t a film festival. It’s a pilgrimage. My journey to the legendary festival, which celebrated its 77th edition this year, involved planes, trains, and automobiles to land in Milan, Italy before crossing the border into Locarno. The odyssey felt...

The Criterion Collection may have surprised some collectors when they announced last May that they would be releasing two Albert Brooks movies on their label in August: “Real Life” and “Mother.” “Real Life” was not a surprise. An HD treatment...

The ambition of Ubisoft’s “Star Wars Outlaws” constantly battles with its own execution in a game that’s invigorating and frustrating in equal measure. It’s a title that feels like it has boundless potential, but also traps you in the same...

When it comes to comedy, FX has more than earned the benefit of the doubt. Not only have they displayed a willingness to embrace creative voices with all-timers like “Better Things” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” but they’re arguably...

Hulu's Emmy darling and smash hit is back with more murder, but some serious undertones too.

The hardest part about attending a film festival strictly as a critic, is knowing you have little chance of seeing the wealth of retrospective titles programmed. It’s just so difficult to divide your time away from the newer titles, mostly...

The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of reasons, mostly in spite of its conventional and hackneyed depiction of a troubled mathematician who deciphers encrypted messages for the mainland army. For starters, “Decoded” provides a dramatic...

Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don't think too deeply about. Science fiction movies can do the same, but in a more exaggerated fashion, revealing the surreal eeriness of the "normal."  You can see this dynamic...

One of the shining jewels of Apple TV+'s lavish yet underseen output—"Ted Lasso" and "Severance" aside—"Pachinko" stood out in 2022 as one of the most layered, complex shows on the streamer. An epic, novelistic tapestry woven through generations of a...