Roger Ebert

This weekend, The Sundance Institute, partnering with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (led by Jonah Ziegler), Choose Chicago and the Chicago Film Office, brings the nation's premier film festival to the Midwest.  From June 28th-30th, Sundance Institute x Chicago 2024 will...

Apple TV+ is slowly shaping up to be one of the best streaming services around. Having recently brought us the likes of “Bad Sisters,” “Severance” and “Presumed Innocent,” they are also shelling out some of the most interesting thrillers in...

After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos is back in provocateur mode. Working more in the vein of his earlier, more surreal flicks like “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,"...

Eva Longoria’s new Apple TV+ Series, “Land of Women,” is exactly what you expect. The "Desperate Housewives" actress true to type as Gala, a beautiful and privileged woman who, despite being stubborn and difficult, is still lovable and easy to root for. ...

“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration camp survivor Liliane Halfin to her daughter, Diane Simone Michelle. Weighing in at 49 pounds after being freed from Auschwitz, Lily gave birth just 11 months later, to...

Sometimes, the path for a film from its festival debut to its theatrical release can be arduous. Low-budget movies without stars or flashy plotlines can have a tough time courting distributors. Documentaries that aren’t based on true crime or celebrities...

This interview reveals plot details of the film “The Devil’s Bath,” and contains discussion of suicide.  Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala specialize in disturbing audiences. But “The Devil’s Bath” is dark, even for the directors of “Goodnight Mommy.”  Based on...

Much has been written about the presumed box-office "failure" of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." The quote marks are intentional: its immediate predecessor in the series, "Mad Max Fury Road," is widely considered one of the best action movies ever made. It's the only film in the series...

When the American Film Institute moved its popular documentary film festival from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles (combining it with its AFI Fest), its former festival director, Sky Sitney, and Jamie Shor (who had guided communications and public relations) took...

When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson) to pick her up from summer camp early, it feels urgent. “I’m going to kill myself,” she says. “I said I’m going to kill myself if you...