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Makoto Shinkai, the director of “Your Name” and “Weathering with You,” is one of the most successful current filmmakers in the world. His latest, “Suzume,” has already grossed over $200 million worldwide, a massive hit in...

The first episode of the fifth season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is packed with all the stylistic choices that have endeared and alienated viewers of the Emmy-winning juggernaut. Yes, there are beautiful crops and costumes—including...

An attractive young couple sits at the center of a fancy restaurant in Norway. Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and Thomas (Eirik Sæther) don’t look especially lovestruck, but they’re having a nice enough time with a birthday...

One of the many admirable qualities of “After (A Love Story)” is how a 14-minute short about a therapy session can still feel complete, emotional, and complex, even though, in reality, the session likely went on...

While HBO fans are understandably in the vice-like grip of “Succession” fever the last few weeks (and justifiably so, considering the bone-shaking highs of its most recent episode), it’s easy to forget that one of its...

Did you ever hear the one about the boy who feared his mother? “Beau Is Afraid” tells this joke for three gobsmacking, sometimes exhausting, always beguiling hours. At the center is a fascinating performance from Joaquin...

Music sets the mood at Ebertfest… Live musical performances have become a key highlight at Ebertfest, and this year’s installment running Wednesday, April 19th, through Saturday, April 22nd, at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, will include...

In the early 1990s, you couldn’t go to your local cineplex without tripping over half a dozen scrappy kids’ sports movies with titles like “The Mighty Ducks,” “The Big Green,” or “Ladybugs.” Out of all these...

Wilmer “Bill” Butler, the cinematographer who will forever be linked with his work on “Jaws” (1975), left us on April 5, 2023, just two days shy of his 102nd birthday. A Colorado boy, he was born...

“Sam Now” is a gentle, empathetic movie that will be unbearably intense for viewers who fear abandonment, but that might prove to be healing, or at least enlightening, if they can stick with it to the...