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“Transformers: The Last Knight” opens and closes with chaos. The first scene features bodies flying everywhere as flames pierce the sky in Michael Bay’s reimagining of the Knights of the Round Table, in which Merlin’s magic...

We have some amazing writers, film critics and video essayists at RogerEbert.com, and I like to introduce you to them individually from time to time and highlight their exceptional work. Our managing editor, Brian Tallerico, also...

For the past few decades, filmmaker and critic Bertrand Tavernier has battling the idea that French cinema was a wasteland, with exceptions like Robert Bresson, Jacques Tati and Max Ophüls, between World War II and the French...

Good morning, Emmy voters. By now, you should have received your ballot to pick the elite of one of the best TV seasons in the history of the medium. It’s up to you to decide if...

In honor of Roger’s birthday on June 18th, we will be republishing some of his classic articles throughout the week. Paul McCartney was born on the same day and in the same year as Roger, yet...

As pleased as I am by the record-shattering success of Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman,” the notion that an opening weekend gross single-handedly justifies the hiring of more women is downright embarrassing. If a man had helmed...

BAMcinemaFest has become a major summer event for New York cinephiles, and this year’s line-up appears to be the best that the fest programmers have yet assembled, including the New York premieres of “A Ghost Story,”...

“King Kong Escapes,” in which the giant ape is enslaved by a James Bond-style bad guy and made to dig for Element X and then fight his robot double, is the silliest King Kong movie ever...

With this weekend’s release of “Cars 3,” we wanted to take a look back about how Roger wrote about the previous films made by Pixar Animation Studios. Curiously enough, they never received less than three stars....

“Cars” and “Cars 2,” are outliers in Pixar’s lineup of critically acclaimed, family friendly blockbusters: the original made a fortune despite poor reviews, and the sequel made another fortune despite even worse reviews. A sort-of spin-off,...