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The “Trip” films constitute the only movie franchise that matters. This is in large part because the movies themselves have absolutely no concern with being the kinds of pictures that “matter.” There are three such movies...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX”Baahubali 2: The Conclusion””Cloud Atlas””The Devil’s Candy””The Founder””Funny Games””Holes””Jackie Brown””The Matrix””Sing””Sleepy Hollow”7 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD”Big Little Lies”HBO sure knows how to time a Blu-ray release. They knew that their 2017 mini-series would end...

Joachim Lafosse’s new claustrophobic chamber drama “After Love” follows Marie (Bérénice Bejo) and Boris (Cédric Kahn), a couple undergoing an acrimonious separation following 15 years of marriage. Boris refuses to move out until he receives adequate...

Rahul Jain’s “Machines,” a documentary about a textile factory in southern India where workers endure Dickensian conditions of 12-hour days for minimal pay, is a film so obedient to current academic fashions in both politics and...

We are pleased to feature an excerpt from the August 2017 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, which is their 50th issue. In addition to this “Big Fish” essay by Katherine Webb, they also have new essays on...

More and more often, I hear from TV watchers that the number of options is becoming overwhelming. Long gone are the days when most quality television was on the traditional broadcast networks like ABC and NBC;...

In its first ever Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday (July 20, 2017), Netflix enlisted Terry Crews to moderate two panels for sneak peeks of two original films: “Bright” and “Death Note.” Although neither movie...

Back in 2011, a 12-year-old film critic named Jackson Murphy (aka “Lights Camera Jackson”) appeared on our show “Ebert Presents At The Movies.” We called him the Kid Critic and we loved presenting him. He was...

Recently I was reminded of that American sitcom, “Three’s Company” that ran from 1976 to 1984. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, it was about a man Jack Tripper (John Ritter) who had two female roommates:...

“Dunkirk” is a technical marvel, but Christopher Nolan’s ambitions run deeper. Abandoning the familiar language of most war and action movies, this is the tightest, most confident, most intense, and in many ways most idiosyncratic of...