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Clifton Collins, Jr., the star of the racetrack drama “Jockey,” has riding in his blood, although the skill is so rarely called for that we’ve almost never gotten to see him do it. Born Clifton Gonzalez...

Clifton Collins, Jr. gives a performance of heartbreaking tenderness and empathy as the title character in “Jockey,” a man who is fighting to hold onto the only place he feels at home, riding a race horse. In an...

In a career that ended way too early, director Jean-Marc Vallée centered flawed characters in a way that made us see ourselves in those flaws. He felt like he had figured something out in the 2010s,...

For the last several years, we have asked the writers of RogerEbert.com to pick a great performance to write about every December. It doesn’t have to be the best performance, but one that they consider great...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s golden, shimmering vision of the 1970s San Fernando Valley in “Licorice Pizza” is so dreamy, so full of possibility, it’s as if it couldn’t actually have existed. With its lengthy, magic-hour walk-and-talks and...

Our protagonist is a hard working middle-class guy. He’s got a house, he’s married, he makes a decent wage. He’s got a few complaints, some outstanding debts, but nobody’s life is perfect, right? He’s making do,...

My high school senior year English teacher, Mr. Kilinski would be proud that I remembered every single stanza and line from Macbeth he made his students memorize. As Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and others worked through the...

Matthew Vaughn’s “The King’s Man” is such an inconsistent action movie. It feels like half the production teams wanted to make “1917” and the other half opened the wallets for the British version of “Team America: World Police.”...

Christmas-themed horror stories are perennially popular so allow me to offer up a brief but terrifying vignette along those lines. Picture, if you will, an ordinary adult-type person who has decided to spend a couple of...

Writer/director Garth Jennings needed to find just the right voice for Clay Calloway, a lion who was the most beloved performing artist in the world until he became a recluse after the death of his wife. In...