No life-story could turn into a paint-by-numbers biopic in the hands of director Julie Taymor, a creative force for both the stage and screen. Indeed, the filmmaker’s uniquely vivid, sometimes unruly signature informs much of her adaptation of feminist icon Gl... More »
For 40 autumns before the Year That Cinema Screeched to a Halt, each September offered a singular geographic and aesthetic itinerary: as the air began to bear a bracing chill, I would join other critics in hurrying to Lincoln Center for New York Film Festival ... More »
Two kids from the muddy outskirts of London, hired through a burner phone, travel to a dilapidated apartment building under the pretense of killing a pedophile. But there’s something they don’t know until it’s too late: The man they’ve been hired to kill is Fi... More »
We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the September 2020 edition of the online magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room. This month’s issue is dedicated to the legendary Billy Wilder, and in addition to Elizabeth Cantwell’s piece on “Ace in the Hole,” also features n... More »
Miranda July’s latest, fittingly, is hard to describe. Even for someone who has now seen it twice, its story is about so many things: it’s about family, con artists, parenting, and capitalism at the center of it, given that the family is parasitic with money, ... More »
“Jake needs to see me as someone who sees him. He needs to be seen, and he needs to be seen with approval. Like that’s my purpose in all this, in life.” — The Young Woman As a teenager, one of my biggest goals was having a boyfriend. It wasn’t just to get atte... More »
Most of the games we write about at RogerEbert.com could be called “cinematic.” The idea has always been to examine where the art forms we cover more like film and television intersect with the world of gaming, one that has had a great influence over cinema an... More »
After Bubba Wallace, the only full-time African American driver in NASCAR, made history by persuading the auto-racing company to outlaw the display of the confederate flag, he makes history again by becoming the first driver for NBA legend Michael Jordan‘s fir... More »
After making two experimental shorts (1969’s “Stereo” and 1970’s “Crimes of the Future”), Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg decided back in the early ’70s to boost his profile with a more overtly commercial project. Like many filmmakers, both before and sinc... More »
Amazon’s “Utopia” is an at-times maddening, at-times fascinating, but always twisty show that thrives on shocking you. Especially in the hands of showrunner/writer Gillian Flynn (based off a BBC series by Dennis Kelly), it’s been designed in part to push peopl... More »
Noah Hawley’s “Fargo” returns after a pandemic-related delay for its fourth self-contained season, exploring the escalating tension between two rival crime families in 1950 Kansas City. Per usual, the production design is exceptional, the casting is inspired, ... More »
Most tributes are best expressed in words, but Michael Chapman’s magnificent contribution to the world was so visual that it feels like photos could get the job done better than anything I could possibly say. And so I’ll be brief on the life and legacy of Mich... More »