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  • Bonded and Unbound: Sean Connery, 1930-2020

    by - Nov 1, 2020
    Sean Connery led with his shoulders and his wicked grin. Raised in a tenement in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was a brawler, sailor, footballer, and bodybuilder before turning to show business. He went on to become a...
  • Disney+’s The Mandalorian Makes a Valiant Return in Season Two Opener

    by - Oct 31, 2020
    We may not be getting a new “Star Wars” movie this year (or even next), but we’ll at least have “The Mandalorian,” a serial that proves with one of its best episodes yet that it still has...
  • His House

    by - Oct 30, 2020
    At the center of Netflix’s ghost story “His House” is a marriage haunted by shared trauma. Writer/director Remi Weekes makes this symbolic connection clear, albeit somewhat comically, in the first scene. Bol Majur (Sope Dirisu) awakens...
  • Come Play

    by - Oct 30, 2020
    “Come Play” uses isolated childhood to spin a traditional ghost story around concerns about bullying and even the abundance of screen time for our current youngest generation. There’s ambition in the concept that elevates Jacob Chase’s film...
  • True Believers: How Abel Ferrara’s Recent Work Reflects His Debut, The Driller Killer

    by - Oct 29, 2020
    A frightened buffalo faces down the audience. Large, red and tattered claw marks rip through the canvas. The earthy color of the buffalo is soaked with blood. It’s a painting of fear, and as this enormous...
  • Amazon’s Truth Seekers is Missing Jokes and Scares

    by - Oct 29, 2020
    “Truth Seekers” is the kind of show that seems to thrive on all that is mild, despite playing with two genres that are inherently tricky to do well. This horror-comedy series just wants to make you...
  • City Hall

    by - Oct 28, 2020
    Even at a time when digital technology has helped create an enormous influx of documentaries covering seemingly every subject matter possible, the arrival of a new work by Frederick Wiseman carries a weight that puts most of...
  • Why We Are Voting for Joe Biden And Kamala Harris

    by - Oct 28, 2020
    We the editorial team of RogerEbert.com endorse the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden for President and Kamala Harris for Vice President for the 2020 U.S. election. We have never made an editorial endorsement before, and the...
  • The Dark Side of Harrison Ford: On the Roles That Led to What Lies Beneath

    by - Oct 27, 2020
    Twenty years ago, Harrison Ford played a murderous villain in Robert Zemeckis’ gaslighting supernatural thriller “What Lies Beneath.” The success of Ford’s performance as the manipulative Dr. Norman Spencer hinged on viewers’ expectations of his two...
  • London Film Festival 2020 Highlights

    by - Oct 27, 2020
    It wasn’t like the last time I’d visited the British Film Institute. The buildings were all the same, massive cubes of concrete sitting along the bank of the Thames. Their façades were aglow with pink and...