Movie

This special edition of Thumbnails explores the changing state of journalism in the world today. The topic was suggested by our Editor at Large, Matt Zoller Seitz, and I agree that it is a profoundly timely...

“Winter Brothers” may not be completely successful when all is said and done, but it is certainly a singular film. On the one hand, it never quite works in a conventionally satisfying manner—it is wildly uneven, occasionally obtuse and...

Few final sequences in recent cinematic memory have pleased audiences quite as deeply as the ending of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” It is a moment so perfectly worded and spontaneously performed that it warrants comparison with...

Still holding its place well in the history of movie special effects even after 30 years, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” remains a timeless entertainment. Although mixing animation into live-action scenes has been relatively less awesome these...

Ben Foster started his acting career in the mid-‘90s at age 16 as a bullied middle-schooler in the Disney TV series “Flash Forward.” He went on to play Eli, a special-needs kid in “Freaks and Geeks”...

Melissa Haizlip’s documentary, “Mr. SOUL!”, won the Audience Award for Best Feature at this year’s AFI DOCS Film Festival in Washington, D.C. It screened to a sold-out audience at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History....

Parenthood is less about explaining the world to children than it is about letting them explain themselves to us. From the first moments, children tell us who they are, and we must readjust to better reflect...

On Friday, June 29th, the most prestigious celebration of cinema in Central and Eastern Europe kicks off in the Czech Republic, and this year, RogerEbert.com will be there to cover it. The 53rd Karlovy Vary International...

Paul Rudd isn’t necessarily the first actor you think of when you hear the phrase “strong, silent type,” but that’s how he’s been cast in “The Catcher Was a Spy.” This film from director Ben Lewin...

“Damsel” is a sly feminist manifesto disguised as a shaggy, amiable hangout movie. It’s a quirky, comic Western with bursts of startling violence. And it calls for a bit of a high-wire act from its gifted...