The latest frontrunners for the major category nominations of the Academy Awards. | Continue reading
A review of the final season of You're the Worst. | Continue reading
A report from the Golden Globes, where Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody were the night's big winners. | Continue reading
A complete list of winners from last night's 76th Golden Globe Awards. | Continue reading
An interview with John C. Reilly about his performance as Oliver Hardy in the Laurel and Hardy film, Stan & Ollie. | Continue reading
A sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama. | Continue reading
Using a style both distanced and intimate, Zamecka enters so totally into this family's routines and rhythms, that when Ola finally sobs, "I've had enough" it's as though the film itself cracks apart, acknowledging the reality of what we've been watching. | Continue reading
It’s ostensibly a thriller, but it’s rarely thrilling, way more interesting in its character beats between Corfield and the movie-stealing Jay Paulson than in any of the scenes that feel like they should be tense but just aren’t. | Continue reading
When the story falters, the mood takes over, making the audience’s experience a dreamlike state of sleep itself. | Continue reading
Even with all-around noble dramatic intent, particularly from Butler, the movie struggles to leave a mark. | Continue reading
With its balance of exuberant humor and rigorous insight, Dava Whisenant’s debut feature provides as stellar an education for the uninformed as any top-drawer industrial musical. | Continue reading
A collection of all our tributes this past year to the unforgettable talent we lost. | Continue reading
At a time of seemingly unprecedented dysfunction in our nation’s capital and public confidence in its lawmakers at an all-time low, is it time for Duck Soup, with its farcical take on government, to go viral? | Continue reading
This film’s biggest problem is its emphasis on media-friendly personalities instead of useful information. | Continue reading
An ode to Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan on its 20th anniversary. | Continue reading
Scout Tafoya's video essay series on maligned masterpieces continues with a celebration of Shane Black's The Predator. | Continue reading
An interview with writer/director Barry Jenkins about adapting James Baldwin's novel, the film's timeliness, casting soul mates and more. | Continue reading
Chaz Ebert and the RogerEbert.com group of writers wishes you Happy Holidays! | Continue reading
A look back at some of our favorite conversations from the past year, with both stars and filmmakers. | Continue reading
Watching a Lars von Trier film is entering into a deranged agreement. | Continue reading
A review of "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" | Continue reading
Given how January is the month when studios dump awful horror movies they couldn’t get out before awards season, this isn’t a bad way for genre nuts to start the new year. | Continue reading
The clichés are there, but its heart beats loud enough for us to embrace and forgive them. | Continue reading
A review of a new box set from pioneering female filmmakers. | Continue reading
The latest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Bad Times at the El Royale, Fahrenheit 11/9, Venom, A Simple Favor, and The Predator. | Continue reading
The whole thing feels like someone took the unfunny outtakes that might have adorned the end credits and stretched them out into their own film. | Continue reading
An interview with director Paul Feig about his new comedy-thriller, A Simple Favor. | Continue reading
Memories and anecdotes from 50 years of moviegoing. | Continue reading
A reprint of astrophysicist Katie Mack's poem, "Disorientation." | Continue reading
A Christmas Day look-back through a photo journal chronicling the inaugural Ebert Center Symposium: "Empathy for the Universe" held on October 1st, 2018, in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. | Continue reading
Matt Fagerholm make his case for why "Mary Poppins Returns" is the best reimagining of a Disney classic to date. | Continue reading
The final shots are stunning, although slightly overwrought. Like Kidman's transformation, it's a little "too much" for what is a fairly standard crime thriller. | Continue reading
American Renegades may look fun on paper, but it's pretty tiresome on the screen. | Continue reading
The film lacks insight, ingenuity, and intensity, skimming the surface of history like a drunk guy at a holiday party who read a Wikipedia entry that he really wants to talk to you about right now. | Continue reading
An interview with Steve Carell about Vice, playing Donald Rumsfeld opposite Christian Bale's Dick Cheney, Beautiful Boy and more. | Continue reading
A personal piece for the holiday season. | Continue reading
Having seen Marwencol and made myself further conversant with the real-life Hogancamp’s story, I found the fripperies and filigrees of romantic comedy and redemption tale added here to be a cheapening and coarsening of Hogancamp’s real life. | Continue reading
There's not only nothing new here, there's nothing convincing either. And if I'm supposed to judge Bumblebee based on how well it succeeds at what it tries to do (rather than what came before it), then I have to say: it's still not very good. | Continue reading
Even the boundless charms of Jennifer Lopez cannot overcome a mess of a script in Second Act, a mishmash that has as much of an identity crisis as its name-switching, past-hiding, resume-inflating main character. | Continue reading
One of those rare Nicolas Cage movie where he comes to play, but makes watching him feel like work. | Continue reading
The best in television for the year. | Continue reading
An article announcing the selection of the Ebert Fellows for the Sundance Institute covering the Sundance Film Festival, January 24-February 3, 2019. | Continue reading
An interview with director Robert Zemeckis and Steve Carell about their new film, Welcome to Marwen. | Continue reading
For all its wild spectacle and cartoon cleverness, this is a quietly subversive movie, and an evolutionary step forward for the genre. | Continue reading
Mary Poppins Returns falls quite short of being practically perfect in every way. | Continue reading
The RE staff on some of their favorite performances of 2018. | Continue reading