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We are pleased to feature an excerpt from the May 2017 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, which is focused on the theme of childhood. Along with this essay by Joanna Di Mattia about “Moonrise Kingdom,” the...

John Waters’ films aren’t for everyone, but “Serial Mom,” a funny, biting satire of suburban repression and hypocrisy, is as close as he’s yet come to making a mainstream film that retains the signature bad taste and...

It takes some time to fully get on the wavelength of Amazon’s “I Love Dick,” the hot new show from “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway. I mean that as a compliment. This is such a defiantly unique...

“Chuck” is based on the real-life story of boxer Chuck Wepner, called “The Bayonne Bleeder,” whose fight with Muhammad Ali was an inspiration for “Rocky.” In an interview with RogerEbert.com, French-Canadian director Phillipe Falardeau (“Monsieur Lazhar,”...

The Netflix mystery movie “Handsome” begins by removing any possibility of mystery: Stephen Weber emerges from a swimming pool and announces, “Hello, I’m Stephen Weber. I play the murderer in this ‘Handsome Mystery Movie.’ Enjoy this...

FREQUENTLY our guests at Ebertfest add our selections to their home viewing catalogues. As a service, we will post the reviews and discussions of the movies from the festival on our website over the next week....

Indian action/period epic “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” is everything I want, but rarely get from superhero and big-budget fantasy movies. Here, larger-than-life characters—specifically a beloved warrior-king Amarendra Baahubali (Prabhas) and his jealous cousin Bhalla (Rana Daggubati)—fight for...

The infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece, “Psycho,” haunted my nightmares years before I actually saw it. As a kid, one of the first books on cinema I read cover to cover explored the...

The first thing that really hits you about “The Lovers” is not its muted color palette, ever-evocative of a smog-suffused Southern California dusk, but its musical score. A lush, romantic through line of melody, performed by...

Oren Moverman’s “The Dinner” is an incredibly frustrating movie, almost purposefully so. It is a film about people who say things like “We’re gonna talk tonight … put it all on the table,” and then never...