Roger Ebert

A Family Affair
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As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations shift randomly to fit a predictable storyline, “A Family Affair” is a low-wattage rom-com. As with last month’s streaming romance “The Idea of You,” this film features a...
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan
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Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in the modern era: her early works teetered between archival ("Our Nixon") to anthological ("Nuts!") to anthropological ("The Pain Of Others"). You never see her face or hear her voice;...
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A Sacrifice
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The first two-thirds of "A Sacrifice" are a largely leaden affair that offers viewers little that they haven’t seen before. It isn’t even awful so much as it is intensely forgettable—the kind of film whose title eludes you even as...
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The Human Surge 3
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We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us to experience life from perspectives outside of our own. The medium reveals the world and those who inhabit it with singular precision as it observes who we are...
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The Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024)
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Bill Cobbs walks into a fictional inn in fictional Llanview, Pennsylvania. He’s playing a building inspector on an undistinguished episode of the undistinguished soap opera “One Life To Live.” The show has several guest stars in that episode, including Jason...
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A Quiet Place: Day One
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There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding “A Quiet Place: Day One” together, even if it sometimes feels like a first draft of a richer, more complex final film. “Pig” director Michael Sarnoski proves deft...
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Catherine Breillat Wants You to Think About (Movie) Sex Differently
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As soon as Théo comes into Anne’s life, nothing will ever be the same for her. A successful, savvy middle-aged lawyer, Anne (Léa Drucker) is married to wealthy businessman Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), the couple raising two young children they adopted....
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The Best Show on TV is Back in the Third Season of FX’s The Bear
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“The Bear,” created by Christopher Storer and now entering its third season, has a simple premise: the lives, efforts, errors of a kitchen staff. It's a workplace show, not an uncommon thing in the history of American television. Where it...
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Sundance x Chicago Brings Film’s Premier Festival to the Windy City
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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...
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Apple TV+’s Daring, Unpredictable Sunny is Summer TV Standout
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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...
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