Movie

  • A Look Back at Those We Lost in 2018

    by - Jan 4, 2019
    Below is a full index of our tributes from 2018, celebrating the unforgettable talent we lost like Penny Marshall, Stan Lee, Aretha Franklin, Burt Reynolds, and more. Each tribute includes a passage from the obituary, a credit...
  • Duck Soup at 85: Make Freedonia Great Again

    by - Jan 3, 2019
    The people believe the government has been mismanaged and demand it be placed in the new hands of a progressive fearless leader. Newly installed, the president presides over his first executive meeting, during which he blithely...
  • Genesis 2.0

    by - Jan 3, 2019
    At one point (ok, several points), I wanted to write off “Genesis 2.0”—a speculative documentary about the present and potential hazards of excavating mammoth tusks for genomic research and animal cloning—as irresponsible, superstitious, anti-science garbage. But I...
  • “A Simple Plan” isn’t your typical Sam Raimi movie, and that’s why it’s his best

    by - Jan 3, 2019
    Whenever a new Spider-Man movie is released, it is inevitably compared not to the entire MCU but one single superhero film: “Spider-Man 2”. Writer/director Sam Raimi’s 2004 sequel, the one where Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) battles...
  • The Unloved, Part 61: The Predator

    by - Jan 1, 2019
    Bryan Singer, TJ Miller, Kevin Hart, Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg, Rob Schneider. What do these problematic famous people have in common? They’re all people Olivia Munn has worked with in an effort to have the film...
  • Barry Jenkins on Adapting James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, The Film’s Timeliness and more

    by - Jan 1, 2019
    “If Beale Street Could Talk,” based on the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, is writer/director Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Moonlight.” In an interview with RogerEbert.com, he talked about the stunning moment where Regina King...
  • Happy New Year from All of Us at RogerEbert.com

    by - Jan 1, 2019
    I am so grateful to all of the editors, our regular contributors and all our other writers at RogerEbert.com, and I am happy to present their smiling faces during this Holiday Season. Please look them up...
  • The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2018

    by - Dec 31, 2018
    Below is a collection of some of our favorite conversations from this year. Each interview features a quote from the conversation, as followed by a link at the end to the full interview. Enjoy this survey...
  • The House that Lars von Trier Built, and that I Live In

    by - Dec 28, 2018
    The first time I watched “Nymphomaniac,” it was cold and it was late and a slant of light from a street lamp striped the floor of my studio apartment, casting ugly shadows on the wall behind my...
  • Netflix Releases Interactive Movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

    by - Dec 28, 2018
    Netflix and Charlie Brooker have unleashed something impressive for people to obsess about over the last weekend of 2018. It’s what’s being called an interactive movie named “Bandersnatch,” a new part of the award-winning “Black Mirror”...