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Ari Aster’s masterwork “Hereditary” has become the horror sensation of the summer for a lot of reasons—it’s scary as hell, and even more disturbing and complex in repeat viewings—but emotional honesty is one of its most...

It occurs to me, as I sit down to write this review, that perhaps I was the wrong person to be assigned this movie. It was some time ago that I first read that Warner Brothers...

This special edition of Thumbnails spotlights the efforts being made to amplify diverse voices in film criticism. The lack of diversity among film critics is now under a microscope and some initiatives were announced at the Women in...

Here is Chaz Ebert’s eighth and final video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, followed by a transcript of the video… Cannes 2018 with Chaz Ebert, Segment 8 from The Mint on Vimeo. It’s hard...

Since we started doing video game coverage here at RogerEbert.com, we very purposefully focused on two types of games—those that pulled enough from the world of film that they could be called cinematic (“Resident Evil,” “Uncharted,”...

“We tell ourselves stories in order to survive,” says Laura Dern in voiceover in “The Tale,” the new narrative feature from documentarian Jennifer Cox (now streaming on HBO Go). The film is a hybrid of fiction...

Thumbnails is a roundup of brief excerpts to introduce you to articles from other websites that we found interesting and exciting. We provide links to the original sources for you to read in their entirety.—Chaz Ebert...

“Star Wars” is losing its steam. I’ve enjoyed all of the movies, having watched nearly all of them on the first night of release. There are, however, some foreboding trends in the recent films that we...

Steve James, the Oscar-nominated director of “Hoop Dreams,” “Life Itself” and “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” has been named the 2018 Guggenheim Honoree at the AFI DOCS Film Festival, running Wednesday, June 13th through Sunday, June...

Ida Lupino once said, “You cannot play naive if you’re not.” And Ida Lupino was never naive. If anything, Lupino was a dogged creator of her own destiny, starting as an actress in simplistic comedies before...