Roger Ebert

San Diego Comic-Con is known for its activations, and the best of 2024 were, by far, presentations by Paramount+ and 20th Century Fox. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, for the second year in a row, Paramount+ used Happy Does...

Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds like it’s straight out of an iMovie effects...

"The Sixth Sense" is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he's been one ever since. It's also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading...

RogerEbert.com Co-Founder and Publisher Chaz Ebert recently spoke to journalist Randi Mazzella about her bestselling book It's Time to Give a FECK:Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness, and we are reprinting what was chosen by the editors of Next Avenue as the...

Finally, at long last, HBO’s “Industry” will be getting a primetime Sunday-night slot with its third season. First debuting in 2020, the series hasn’t been able to pick up the viewership it deserves, despite having a dedicated online following. But,...

Congratulations, Mr. Rupert Pupkin. You are definitely one of the creepiest movie antiheroes in the history of cinema, but you and your little “comedy” movie, Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy,” have somehow persisted for more than 40 years, despite...

Was SDCC 'Finally Back to Normal' in a Post-Pandemic World?  That's what SDCC chief communications and strategy office David Glanzer told Variety, but is it true? As Variety notes, last year's SAG-AFTRA strike "forced almost every studio to pull their panels" and...

People like to pay a certain amount of lip service to the importance of young people participating in the electoral process. Still, in most regards, they tend to be either marginalized or outright dismissed. So it’s always a delight when...

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly you need to see the R-rated director’s cut of “Rebel Moon,” Snyder’s grim Netflix space opera adventure. This new director’s cut adds 110 minutes of footage, including a...

This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time and place of this new movie co-directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, who also wrote the screenplay, becomes clear....