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Netflix’s “FUBAR” is a show that constantly feels like it should work. After all, the idea of ‘80s superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger riffing on his action persona in a streaming series has a ton of potential. It’s...

Rob Savage has proven twice that he can aim higher than “The Boogeyman,” an emotionally numbing horror movie and counter-intuitive self-challenge to make PG-13 horror scary. The filmmaker’s previous ventures—“Host,” about a haunted Zoom seance, and...

It’s worth repeating, as Festival Director Thierry Fremaux seemingly does every year, that three quarters-of-a-century ago Cannes was founded as a bridge between Hollywood and the local cineastes. There’s always been a direct line between the...

A world without Kenneth Anger is a poorer place. The queer filmmaker, fanatic, mythmaker, and gadfly was like the anti-Charles Chaplin. The two made headlines in very different ways. The two spanned crucial decades of Hollywood...

For a long, long while, there is not much to “The Pot-au-Feu” other than watching renowned French actors (Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel) prepare some of the most exquisite-looking cuisine ever committed to film—but that, readers, is cinema....

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s fourth video dispatch from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, made with Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features her discussion with Ben Kenigsberg about various selections at the festival, including Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen...

You may not be able to be friends with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen in real life, but the new Apple TV+ series “Platonic” at least lets you watch them hang out. That’s the general guarantee...

Before Asian representation in American blockbuster entertainment like “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 YA graphic novel American Born Chinese was one of the very few...

Tony, Emmy, AFI and Golden Globe Award-winner Jeffrey Wright, one of the most prolific actors of our time, will take part in a conversation about his illustrious career moderated by RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert at the Cannes...

“The French Dispatch,” which showed at Cannes in 2021, was one of Wes Anderson’s most divisive movies. I fell into the camp that thought it was way too busy, and that all its competing narrative conceits drained...