Roger Ebert

Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar Wastes Its Lavish Potential
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Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of Hindi cinema’s best directors. His name is synonymous with sumptuous costumes, opulent production design, vivid female lead characters, expertly directed songs that function like short films, and soaring music. Actresses over the years...
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​Nocturnal Suburban Teen Angst Fantasia: Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow
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With their surreal and shimmering “I Saw the TV Glow,” Jane Schoenbrun has made one of the year’s defining films—an eerie and overwhelmingly potent meditation on teenage dysphoria, repression, and representation, in which two high school classmates obsess over a...
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A Preview of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
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This Tuesday, May 14th, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival kicks off, with a bevy of new and exciting titles from classic and contemporary filmmakers around the globe. Some of the most eagerly anticipated works of 2024 make their...
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Driven By Love and Necessity: An Interview With Lily Gladstone
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Since their remarkable breakthrough role as a soulful, lonely rancher in Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women,” Lily Gladstone has left an indelible mark on cinema and television. Mostly working with writer-directors on small, personal projects, they've blazed an invaluable trail for...
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I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
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If you were to look at a photograph of Roger Corman without knowing who it was, you might suspect that he was a straight-laced Midwestern businessman—the kind of guy who thrived back in the days of three-martini lunches and Elks...
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RogerEbert.com Announces Assistant Editor, Weekly Critic, and Social Media Manager
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In 2013, my late husband Roger and I launched RogerEbert.com as a stand-alone site separate from our previous partner since 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times. As you know, Roger passed away April 4, 2013, and I made the decision to continue the movie review site in...
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Nothing Can’t Be Undone by a HotPot
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In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is not only the best movie title of the year so far, but also a no-frills Chinese whodunit about a pile of stolen cash, a human body, and a...
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The 10 Most Anticipated Films of Cannes 2024
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Every year, the Cannes Film Festival is an embarrassment of riches, offering moviegoers a smorgasbord of exciting, challenging cinema. In recent times, the likes of “Parasite,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “The Worst Person in the World,” “Triangle of...
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Poolman
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Chris Pine's first film as a director, "Poolman," is a character comedy about oddball Los Angelenos that doubles as a spoof of 1940s detective movies. Pine also cowrote (with Ian Gotler), co-produced, and plays the title character, Darren Barrenman. Darren is a big-bearded,...
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Power
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Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news. There’s too many instances, too many stories from around the country pointing to a larger abuse of state-sanctioned power. Some headlines bubble up to national attention, even those...
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