Roger Ebert

No Easy Answers: On the Power of The Teachers’ Lounge
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The German film “The Teachers’ Lounge,” which was recently nominated for Best International Film Oscar and played this year's Ebertfest, is a riveting school drama about how one seemingly simple matter becomes quite complicated for everyone involved. No matter much...
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No Therapy: The Primordial Commitment of The Northman
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Robert Eggers' third film "The Northman" sticks in the mind. Released in 2022, it's the longest and by far most expensive film by director-cowriter Robert Eggers—a bloody, glowering epic fantasy, loosely based on the myth that inspired William Shakespeare to write "Hamlet," with dollops...
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Home Entertainment Guide: April 2024
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10 NEW TO NETFLIX "The Act of Killing""Amadeus""Anyone But You""Happy Gilmore""The Killing Fields""Knocked Up""Lucy""Strange Way of Life""Suzume""The Thin Blue Line" 11 NEW ON BLU-RAY/DVD "Andor" (and Disney+ Shows) There seems to be a trend back towards physical media (at least...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say, a concentration camp during the Holocaust—is a tough pill to swallow, even at the best of times. And yet, Lali Sokolov and Gita Furman, two Slovakian prisoners at...
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Max’s Award-Winning Hacks Returns with Its Best Season to Date
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I must admit that I went into the third season of Max’s award-winning “Hacks” expecting to see a show on the other side of its peak. How do you keep this premise fresh for that many seasons, especially when it...
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Death Feels Very Close: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist
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With “Evil Does Not Exist,” his enigmatic follow-up to the Oscar-winning drama “Drive My Car,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi stages an ominous, slow-burning thriller deep in the Japanese wilderness. There, in the small village of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo, the residents...
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Evil Does Not Exist
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“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a clueless moneyed entrepreneur muses during a video chat with his two shell-shocked subordinates in the new film from writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. In the context of the actual conversation...
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Speed Kills: On the 25th Anniversary of Go
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The unexpected global success of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994 spawned a wave of wannabes and cash-ins, many of them mixing and matching elements that they thought made Quentin Tarantino’s movie a success: Violence, drugs, ostentatiously declamatory dialogue and monologues, time-shifting...
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Joanna Arnow Made Her BDSM Comedy for You
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At a time when moviegoers are noting the lack of sex in mainstream films, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” is something of a revelation—both because of what it shows and how casually it shows it....
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Boy Kills World
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Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a pivotal scene from “Boy Kills World,” a hyper-action movie about a media-addicted killer who wants to avenge his family’s deaths. We don’t know who these TV casualties are...
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