Movie

  • Hustle

    - Jun 7, 2022
    Adam Sandler is arguably the most basketball affiliated movie star working today. The love of the game was evident in his standup days, when he had that great bit about Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in...
  • Cannes 2022 Video #8: Elvis, Godland, Tori and Lokita

    - Jun 6, 2022
    RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s eighth and final video dispatch from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, made with Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, includes Justin Chang’s reviews of Elvis, Godland and Tori and Lokita, as well as a conversation with filmmaker...
  • Star Wars Celebration 2022: Mando+, Light and Magic, Andor and More

    - Jun 6, 2022
    Although the timing of Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022 was right for the new Disney+ series, “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” which premiered May 27, Star Wars Celebration Anaheim II (SWCA) was really all about “The Mandalorian.” Thursday featured the...
  • Olivier Assayas, Alicia Vikander Are Having a Blast in HBO’s Irma Vep

    - Jun 3, 2022
    There’s such a laidback, playful energy in HBO’s new dramedy “Irma Vep” that it’s contagious, the kind of calming escape that we really need in Summer 2022. It’s just fun to hang out in a world...
  • Benediction

    - Jun 3, 2022
    “Benediction” bears the distinctive stamp of its writer/director, Terence Davies, a man whose films feel more like poetic meditations on moods, emotions, and events than straightforward narratives. It’s as if we are floating above the material,...
  • The Boys Returns for a Bloated, Super-Sized Third Season

    - Jun 2, 2022
    Eric Kripke’s blood-soaked superhero satire “The Boys” has always felt a bit like “Watchmen” by way of “South Park”—well-worn cynicism about the current state of superhero media and pop culture, doused in a metric ton of...
  • A Search For Redemption: Terence Davies on Benediction

    - Jun 2, 2022
    Inspired by the life of WWI-era British poet Siegfried Sassoon, the latest film from writer-director Terence Davies is a swooning exploration of redemption, regret, privilege, and love set in a time before homosexuality was legalized in...
  • The Unloved, Part 102: Cecil B. Demented

    - Jun 1, 2022
    I don’t know how I made it to 100 of these without talking about John Waters but I guess that is the beautiful contradiction of Baltimore’s favorite son. Waters became an American institution by reveling in...
  • Female Filmmakers in Focus: Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams on Neptune Frost

    - Jun 1, 2022
    Originally envisioned as a graphic novel in 2013 with ideas later explored in the 2016 album MartyrLoserKing, the feature directorial debut from multi-hyphenate artist Saul Williams and Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, “Neptune Frost” is...
  • Cannes 2022: Highlights of the Return of the Legendary Film Festival

    - Jun 1, 2022
    The general consensus of those at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival was that the selections were “fine.” Many chatting in line anxiously awaited some giant breakout film, finding that premieres from masters and newcomers alike were...