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Tim Robinson’s style of CAPS LOCK COMEDY has done it again in creating a series of jokes that will make people laugh hard, scratch their heads, and/or incorporate them into inside jokes they share with their...

“Return of the Jedi” celebrated its ruby anniversary this May and received a limited theatrical release. Even after four decades, the more things change, the more things stay the same. Just like in 1983, you can go...

You never know who you’ll meet at the Double R Diner. This past February, my wife and I traveled to North Bend, Washington, for The Real Twin Peaks festival, which I attended with two other devotees...

At its best, Pixar is unbeatable, making clever, charming, and brightly original films to touch the heart and spark the imagination. And so it’s been dispiriting to see the animation studio behind such emotive triumphs as...

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s eighth and final video dispatch from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, made with Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features her report on this year’s prize-winners, led by Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of...

Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” a French courtroom drama that finds an author (Sandra Hüller) accused of the murder of her husband, won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Triet...

Maybe it’s an illusion, but Cannes always seems to end in a mad rush, as the festival’s theaters squeeze in the last contenders for awards. (Two fresh competition films premiered on Friday, one day before the...

When was the first time that Robert De Niro did a flat-out comedy? Probably “Midnight Run,” in which he showed he was great at slapstick and comic banter, and introduced that signature expression that made him a bankable star,...

The Cannes Classics sidebar is one of the hidden gems of this festival. With screenings usually nestled into the upper-floor Buñuel theatre, its slate provides a bit of intimacy and reflection away from the hullaballoo that...

“Close Your Eyes,” the first feature from the Spanish director Víctor Erice (“The Spirit of the Beehive”) in more than 30 years, opens in Paris in 1947. But it’s a fakeout: The sequence turns out to...