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The two parts of Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" are epic in scope, awesome in visuals, and nonsensical in story. It is one of those works that...

A slick but incurious film that is so preoccupied with showing the what of Manchester's story that it doesn’t bother to examine the why.

Most crime movies begin in the present and move forward, but film noir coils back into the past. The noir hero is doomed before the story begins -- by fate,

Nov 25, 2025 - A report from a very special event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Siskel & Ebert.

Sep 15, 2022 - On three docs from TIFF, including the unsettling latest from the director of Blackfish.

Also in my Great Movies Collection: "Pandora's Box."

Here is the saddest film I have ever seen about the life of a woman. It begins on a chill dawn when the heroine wanders, her face behind a fan, until

Nov 26, 2016

“28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” is a gnarly, mind-bending trek through inhumanity.

Vision Quest, the 1985 wrestling film that Roger Ebert loved, is now available to watch for free on Tubi.

A powerful documentary about time, memory, parents, children, and art.

It’s all familiar spy-genre stuff, but it’s depicted in solid fashion. 

A collection of all of our reviews of Amazon Original Movies.

Ultimately, the spirit of “Love, Brooklyn” is tenderness.

A captivating experiment, a vision of the future that ties itself to the themes of faith and identity that have dominated fiction since the start of the...

Jim Jarmusch's latest, an anthology about families, is about words not spoken, and people gone but not forgotten.

Southern wields the tropes in a stylistically over-determined way–jump-scares and all–which cheapens the delicate and poetic narrative.

It’s so easy to see all of the places where this unique gem could have gone wrong and so satisfying to see it only make good choices from beginning to end.

This movie reminds us there is just one way to separate truth from propaganda: learning.

The film grants hope for the women of Iran through its thick-skinned subject, putting her resume and grit on display.

Doesn’t have nearly enough action, monster-related or otherwise, to justify its existence.

Aug 22, 2024 - Ebert Prime | Roger Ebert

The story itself is so absurd and is told with enough surprises and dry humor that it’s constantly engaging.

This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive.

"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens up...

Every bit as exciting and heartwarming and imaginative as the Oscar-winning original and maybe even funnier.

A ludicrous assemblage of coincidences and nonsensical plot twists that only the most hardcore Harlanheads will be able to run with.

Nov 27, 2025 - While these four episodes stumble a bit in terms of pacing and urgency, especially early on, they end on such a satisfying, long-awaited note that fans who...

Adultery was the great subject of many of Ingmar Bergman's films and much of his life. He was married five times, and not very faithfully, because he also...

The French have a name for the events leading up to a death by guillotine. They call it "the ceremony." Although Claude Chabrol's "La...

In a vast Spanish plain, harvested of its crops, a farm home rests. Some distance away there is a squat building like a barn, apparently not used, its doors

Jan 3, 2026 - Roger Ebert strongly disliked the Sean Connery steampunk superhero film 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', which he thought was a total mess.

Jun 30, 2022 - A review of the second half of Stranger Things 4.

One of the most thrilling films of the year.

It is a bad time for the young couple. He plays the cello in a small provincial orchestra. Their audiences have been sparse. The owner of the orchestra sadly

Imagine a Charlie Kaufman movie that never made you the slightest bit uncomfortable.

In France, the afternoon hours from five to seven are known as the hours when lovers meet. On this afternoon, nothing could be further from Cleo's mind...

It’s such a non-movie that it actually becomes difficult to review because there’s so little to hold onto that it dissipates from memory while you’re...

It's all just really bizarre, limp copies of better films.

Feb 18, 2026

Stanley Kubrick considered "The Killing" (1956) to be his first mature feature, after a couple of short warm-ups. He was 28 when it was released,...

"Brick" buzzes around your senses, grabbing for your attention, but has a very short shelf life.

Aug 16, 2023 - An interview with the director of Oldboy about the legacy of the film and its new restoration.

The animators pack so many enriching details into their adaptation that even the most incidental scene feels consequential.

Nov 26, 2025 - A recounting of time spent at the Estonian film festival.

This is the Batman movie I've been waiting for.

For as ironically static as JT Mollner's script is, the conversations and dynamics become innately cinematic.

"Wimbledon" is a well-behaved movie about nice people who have good things happen to them. That's kind of startling, in a world where movie...

“Eternity” may as well be a small slice of heaven on earth: a good time at the movies.

Succinct, entrancing, and life-affirming.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy....

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Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic considered Se7en, After Hours, and Rear Window to be among the absolute best psychological thriller movies ever.

Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter” (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves...

Aug 22, 2024 - In memoriam | Roger Ebert

John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds. Beginning with "Stagecoach" (1939), continuing...