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  • The Last of Us Part II Redefines the Horror Video Game Experience

    by - Jun 17, 2020
    In 2013, Sony and a developer named Naughty Dog released “The Last of Us,” a game that would become one of the most beloved of its generation. Taking the treasure-hunting formula of Naughty Dog’s “Uncharted” series,...
  • I Was Surrounded by Love: Spike Lee on the Protests and Da 5 Bloods

    by - Jun 16, 2020
    With the release of his new film “Da 5 Bloods,” director/co-writer Spike Lee has once again proven that his finger is firmly on the pulse of American history. The Netflix-released film tells the story of a group...
  • A Legend to Us All: Jeanine Basinger on Mae West

    by - Jun 16, 2020
    “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.” That’s Mae West to Cary Grant in “I’m No Angel,” just one of West’s oft-quoted one-liners that scandalized pre-Code Hollywood in the early 1930s....
  • A Muse

    by - Jun 16, 2020
    “A Muse,” a modest epic about young artists in Europe, was made two years ago and released last week. But it feels as it it arrived via time warp from the late 20th century, the waning...
  • Real Treasure: The Reunion at the Heart of Da 5 Bloods

    by - Jun 15, 2020
    Spike Lee’s newest 40 Acres and a Mule production, the excellently crafted “Da 5 Bloods,” sees four Vietnam War veterans—Eddie (Norm Lewis), Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clark Peters), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr.)—reunite after years apart....
  • Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents

    by - Jun 13, 2020
    The following table of contents contains reviews, interviews and essays both new and republished that have been featured on RogerEbert.com in allegiance with a critical American movement that upholds Black voices. For a growing resource list with information on where you...
  • Marona’s Fantastic Tale

    by - Jun 12, 2020
    The title “Marona’s Fantastic Tale” promises a fantasy or fable, packed with dream visions, eccentric characters and world-changing events. But while this animated film from director Anna Damian delivers all that and more, nothing that happens in it would seem...
  • Paving the Way: Shola Lynch on Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed

    by - Jun 11, 2020
    There is something about filmmaker Shola Lynch’s laugh that is utterly infectious. I noticed it during her unforgettable interactions with Ernie and Bert in the early days of “Sesame Street,” and was charmed by it all...
  • Home Entertainment Guide: June 11, 2020

    by - Jun 11, 2020
    Note: The weirdness of the COVID-19 pandemic is catching up to home entertainment. Films delayed from March like “Mulan” would normally be coming out on Blu-ray now. And it’s probably going to be like this for...
  • Da 5 Bloods

    by - Jun 10, 2020
    Spike Lee’s excellent “Da 5 Bloods” opens with Muhammad Ali and closes with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two legends who are inextricably tied to the Civil Rights movement and Black pride. Lee uses them to...