Roger Ebert

The first and last films of any filmmaker's oeuvre serve as fascinating signposts of their work -- sometimes they feel like acute demonstrations of their progress as filmmakers throughout the years, others feel like elliptical representations of the same themes...

Some people become actors because they crave an audience, a camera, a director, or the fans. Some do it because they love to become other people, transform themselves, or tell stories. Shelley Duvall, who died this week at age 75, became...

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political satire to weighty, remorseful drama and back again. Tonally messy and overlong, director Greg Berlanti’s film ultimately squanders the considerable charms of its A-list stars, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, who are individually...

The intrigue of MGM+'s "The Emperor of Ocean Park" turns on the sudden demise of federal judge Oliver Garland (Forest Whitaker), found one day at his desk dead of an apparent heart attack. The news sends ripples through the media, and...

Film festivals are good for the soul. While the big ones like TIFF and Sundance can sometimes feel a bit like money machines, the little ones give oxygen to art. Even one where the altitude is high enough that there’s...

Three years ago, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar released their feature “Jockey,” an immaculate portrait of an aging horse riding (Clifton Collins Jr.) confronting his broken past and his bleak future. That gorgeously shot work, which combined stars with first-time...

Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you, and make you think about it hours or even days later. It’s a very purposefully exaggerated film, from the oppressive sound design to the heavily mannered performances, going...

There are lots of shows about trauma but few are as funny or as fun as the Onyx Collective’s “UnPrisoned,” now in its second season. If that sounds like shade, it is not. Loosely based on creator Tracy McMillan’s own...

When Jerry Seinfeld took the stage at the Kennedy Center in 2018 to pay tribute to Julia-Louis Dreyfus, who was receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, he told a story about the early days of “Seinfeld.” Before Louis-Dreyfus...

What if, like, food could talk, man? And what if they said swears and had orgies? Those sentences, I'm sure, billowed out of the presumably hotboxed pitch room of 2016's "Sausage Party," the too-raunchy-by-half adult animated comedy that featured rubbery food...