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Content warning: This review includes descriptions of sexual violence. How the mighty fall / from the throne we’ve made / we want it all / it’s a dangerous game When a song this preposterously insipid, its...

Describing “The Northman” as director Robert Eggers’ most accessible film verges on misleading. The filmmaker’s prior works—the puritanical hallucinations of “The Witch” and the desolate, mermaid fetishization of “The Lighthouse”—traded in traditional macabre American folklore for...

We continue celebrating this site’s co-founder, Roger Ebert, by publishing some of his invaluable lists ranking the Top Ten films from particular years over the past half-century. Today we will start with his Top Ten List from 1973,...

In celebration of Roger Ebert, we are reprinting the favorite reviews and articles of our writers and other distinguished readers… One of my favorite memories of Roger Ebert, my uncle, was when he reviewed the movie...

“Tokyo Vice” is something of a dream when it comes to non-fiction, genre-related entertainment. Loosely inspired by the life of American journalist Jake Adelstein inside late ‘90s Tokyo, it has the thrum of a newspaper story,...

In celebration of Roger Ebert, we are reprinting the favorite reviews and articles of our writers and other distinguished readers… I have a connection to what Roger wrote about “Diabolique” (1955). It is one of my favorite...

“Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,” once said this site’s namesake in a profoundly deep reflection. How right he was that film as an artform has that power, enabling the viewer to see the...

One does not hire Michael Bay for subtle adult drama. The blockbuster producer/director of the “Transformers” and “Bad Boys” franchises does have a distinctive style—it’s just that all of his authorial signatures involve massive explosions and...

How audiences feel about the new AMC series “61st Street,” an agonizing legal thriller concerning police brutality set on the South Side of Chicago, will depend on whether creator Peter Moffat sticks the landing. The often...

In a different universe, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are two employees for the IRS, or maybe one of them is a struggling circus clown and the other is an astronaut, or maybe one of them...