Even as skilled a social satirist as Robert Altman got thrown off his game by the fashion world, which is almost a parody of itself. Early on in “Triangle of Sadness,” it looks like the Swedish director Ruben Östlund, returning to Cannes with his first feature... More »
Being back at Cannes a mere 10 months after the Covid-affected fest last July feels equal parts surreal and familiar. Staying at the same apartment complex, walking the same streets, gorging on food at favourite locales during brief windows of time where such ... More »
Why is Mia Hansen-Løve’s “One Fine Morning” not in competition this year at Cannes, but instead showing in the Directors’ Fortnight program? You have to wonder, given that Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island” competed here last year and got a pretty good reception (... More »
In the original Prime Video series “Night Sky,” J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek play a longtime married couple who have their own little piece of heaven. In a metaphorical sense, it’s their longtime, lived-in relationship, in which Franklin York (Simmons) now ta... More »
In “Armageddon Time,” James Gray brings together all the ideas about class, opportunity, the immigrant experience, and life in New York that have run through his films since “Little Odessa.” It’s his best movie since “The Immigrant,” at least, and maybe his be... More »
RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s first video dispatch from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, includes commentary on the opening night screening of Michel Hazanavicius‘ “Final Cut,” preceded by a speec... More »
After 52 episodes over six years, two feature films, a touring exhibit of costumes, and enough merch to fill the title residence, “Downton Abbey” is almost in the “Up” series category for our connection to the characters. We have been through so many births, r... More »
The most noteworthy thing about the competition film “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” strong as it is, might not be the movie at all. It’s that the director, Kirill Serebrennikov, was in Cannes at the Grand Théâtre Lumière to attend to the premiere—and he received a long... More »
The highlight of this year’s Cannes opening ceremony was a sudden appearance by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke to the audience by live feed toward the end of the event. He spoke in Ukrainian, and what little French I understand is not ne... More »
A recent tweet plaintively asked, “Couldn’t we get a Schoolhouse Rock for grown-ups?” A new series on Netflix called “The G Word” is pretty close. It doesn’t have singing and dancing animated legislative proposals and founding fathers, but it does have “invest... More »
When it was officially announced that David Lynch’s groundbreaking series “Twin Peaks” was returning for a third season a quarter century after its initial premiere, one of the show’s most ardent fans, Scott Ryan, had an immediate desire for there to be covera... More »
“Life Itself,” Steve James’ acclaimed 2014 documentary about the life and legacy of our site’s namesake, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, will be screened at 7pm CT this Thursday, May 19th, at FACETS, 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., in Chicago. The Osca... More »