Roger Ebert

Cannes 2024: Table of Contents
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The following table of contents contains Chaz Ebert's video dispatches from Cannes 2024, produced by herself and Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, and written dispatches by Robert Daniels, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber, Isaac Feldberg, Scott Dummler, and Lisa Nesselson.  Video Dispatches: A...
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Netflix’s Bridgerton Makes Some Improvements to its Popular Formula
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The Shondaland/Netflix juggernaut that is “Bridgerton” is back for a third season, after taking a fruitful detour via its “Queen Charlotte” prequel. This new season, focusing on the love story of Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton,...
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Cannes 2024: The Girl with the Needle, Wild Diamond
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Of the 22 films in this year's Cannes competition, the first two to screen have a lot in common. Both are portraits of strong-willed women willing to be exploited to find a way out of poverty. Both films doggedly stick...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it epic,” says an undaunted Chris Hemsworth. It’s a call to action that comes toward the end of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller’s apocalyptic epic western prequel...
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Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break
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Roger Corman, who died last week at 98, was so important and influential that a thorough account of his impact would require a book (there have already been many – and documentaries, too). But the most impressive achievement of all is...
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The Red Carpets of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival
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What makes the Chicago Critics Film Festival so special (besides the fact that it’s the only festival curated by critics) is that it truly is a love letter to Chicagoan cinephiles.  This year’s festival featured its strongest line-up to date,...
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Fated for All: Romanclusivity Captures Our Hearts in Bridgerton and Beyond
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An epiphany can strike like an astronomical event, the way love is like the birth of a star. My latest ah-ha moment arrived with the total eclipse of the sun. I’d been pondering romance. Not any old love, but the...
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IF
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If you're lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski's new film, "IF," you may be greeted with a short introduction by the writer/director, asserting that the film is expressly for all the "girl dads" out there. Having...
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Cannes 2024: The Second Act; Abel Gance’s Napoleon
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The first two screenings of the 77th Cannes Film Festival were of a silent classic so gargantuan that the festival screened only the first half, which itself ran longer than last year's "Killers of the Flower Moon," and of a...
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Meanwhile in France…Cannes to Be Specific
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Back on April 11th, when Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux and Festival president Iris Knobloch announced most of the films in the Official Selection of the 77th Festival, then a little over a month away (May 14 -...
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