Movie

“Cobra Kai” has become a pop culture hit not just because everyone loves “The Karate Kid,” but because this series has found a balance between easy-to-watch nostalgic entertainment and excellent dramatic plotting. Now in its third...

If you thought that this Christmas season was a disastrous one by Hollywood standards, spare a thought for what transpired during this same time period exactly 30 years ago. Unlike now, theaters were open in 1990,...

While David Fincher’s recent Netflix film “Mank” adamantly sticks to Welles’ co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz’s bitter viewpoint on how he came to write “Citizen Kane,” Benjamin Ross’ 1999 HBO movie “RKO 281” mainly presents director and co-writer...

As we’ve done every December, we asked the writers of RogerEbert.com to pick a performance they particularly loved from the just-passed year of film. The submissions ranged from the performers who are picking up awards buzz to...

Even in just a few years from now, 2020 will always be airplane food. Everyone will recognize its terrible nature, and have their own experiences, but only hacks will bring it up when trying to make...

Pixar’s “Soul” is about a jazz pianist who has a near-death experience and gets stuck in the afterlife, contemplating his choices and regretting the existence that he mostly took for granted. Pixar veteran Pete Docter is the credited co-director,...

Among his many directorial super powers, Robert Rodriguez has the ability to glide with ease between worlds that are family-friendly (“Spy Kids”) and those that are extreme, campy, and violent (“Machete”). Each jump between genres exhibits...

Two of the most inspiring people who have continually brought me to my Happy Place during this quarantined year are over a century old as well as the very definition of ageless. I would like to take...

Continuing with our series of dazzling writing from 2020, we present reviews or articles self-selected by each of our editors (Brian Tallerico, Matt Zoller Seitz, Nick Allen, Matt Fagerholm and Nell Minow); and then an article or...

Two of the most inspiring people who have continually brought me to my Happy Place during this quarantined year are over a century old as well as the very definition of ageless. I would like to take...