by Brian Tallerico April 6, 2021 | Print Page Tweet While we don’t cover a lot of Acorn TV here on RogerEbert.com, I’ve always liked what they do, and jumped at the chance to review […]
Category: Films
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Awakenings movie review & film summary (1990)
This review originally ran no December 20, 1990, and is being re-run for Day4Empathy 2020. We do not know what we see when we look at Leonard. We think we see a human vegetable, a […]
Blazing Saddles movie review & film summary (1974)
This review originally ran no February 7, 1974, and is being re-run for Day4Empathy 2020. There are some people who can literally get away with anything — say anything, do anything — and people will […]
Dawn of the Dead movie review (1979)
This review originally ran no May 4, 1979, and is being re-run for Day4Empathy 2020. “Dawn of the Dead” is one of the best horror films ever made — and, as an inescapable result, one […]
Joe Versus the Volcano movie review (1990)
This review originally ran no March 9, 1990, and is being re-run for Day4Empathy 2020. Gradually during the opening scenes of “Joe Versus the Volcano,” my heart began to quicken, until finally I realized a […]
Local Hero movie review & film summary (1983)
This review originally ran on April 15, 2021 and is being re-published now for Day4Empathy 2020. Here is a small film to treasure, a loving, funny, understated portrait of a small Scottish town and its […]
The Blues Brothers movie review (1980)
This review originally ran in 1980 and is being re-published now for Day4Empathy 2020. This is some weird movie. There’s never been anything that looked quite like it; was it dreamed up in a junkyard? […]
War and Peace movie review & film summary (1969)
This review originally ran on June 22, 1969 and is being re-published now for Day4Empathy 2020. The movies have done a lot of borrowing during their long climb to the status of an art form, but […]
Outbreak movie review & film summary (1995)
This review originally ran on March 10, 2021 and is being re-published now for Day4Empathy 2020. It is one of the great scare stories of our time, the notion that deep in the uncharted rain […]
Contagion movie review & film summary (2011)
This review originally ran on September 7, 2021 and is being re-published now for Day4Empathy 2020. A black screen. The sound of a harsh cough. We are already alert when, soon after, we see a […]
Day4Empathy 2020: Roger’s Reviews on What We’re Watching During the Pandemic | Empathy
by Brian Tallerico April 4, 2021 | Print Page Tweet Every year on the anniversary of his passing, we give RogerEbert.com back to Roger Ebert, posting 13 of his reviews on the front page. This […]
RogerEbert.com is Wishing You Health, Safety and Compassion During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Message for Day4Empathy, April 4th, 2020 | Chaz’s Journal
by Chaz Ebert April 4, 2021 | Print Page Tweet Maybe my idea of a world where love, empathy, compassion, kindness and forgiveness are guiding principles is not such a crazy idea after all. The […]
Into the Dark: Pooka Lives! movie review (2020)
Believe it or not, Hulu’s series of original horror films under the “Into the Dark” banner has its first sequel! Nacho Vigalondo’s “Pooka!” gets a tongue-in-cheek update in “Pooka Lives!,” a movie that’s at its […]
PBS’ Ensemble War Drama World on Fire Will Envelop You in Another Time and Place | Demanders
by Allison Shoemaker April 3, 2021 | Print Page Tweet It’s likely that one might read the title “World on Fire” in this particular moment in time and think, “nah, gonna steer clear of that […]
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children movie review (2020)
HBO documentary series are typically a tier above other networks and “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children” is no exception. Over five hours, the producers of this series detail the Atlanta Child Murders of […]
Invisible Life movie review & film summary (2019)
This review ran on December 20, 2021 and is being re-run now that it is on Amazon Prime today, 4/3. Lush melodramas are a dying breed, especially masterful ones like Karim Aïnouz’s “Invisible Life” that […]
Escape to the Hellscape of Doom Eternal | Balder and Dash
by Brian Tallerico April 3, 2021 | Print Page Tweet It’s hard to say a game that’s as violent and intense as the excellent “Doom Eternal” should be used as an escape, but it’s visceral […]
Coffee & Kareem movie review & film summary (2020)
Let’s set one thing straight: “Stuber” was a good movie. Yes, the title for that 2019 action-comedy with Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista was silly, but that was part of its self-deprecating approach to cop […]
Slay The Dragon movie review & film summary (2020)
No fairy tale prince ever took on a more terrifying monster than the “dragon” in this documentary about the massive Republican redistricting following Barack Obama’s first Presidential election and the 2010 census. The dragon here […]
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2, 2021 | Demanders
by Brian Tallerico April 2, 2021 | Print Page Tweet 10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Alpha Dog”“Lethal Weapon““Malcolm X““The Matrix““Minority[…]
Shudder Launches Clever Series About the Legacy of Cursed Films | Demanders
by Brian Tallerico April 2, 2021 | Print Page Tweet Horror fans have always been drawn to the idea that a film could be so powerful that it would transcend celluloid and impact the real […]
Creating Hilde-Vision: Dana Fox and Jon M. Chu on Home Before-Dark | Interviews
by Allison Shoemaker April 2, 2021 | Print Page Tweet It’s not particularly easy to classify “Home Before Dark.” It’s simple enough to say what it is, because it’s a lot of things: a show […]
It is All An Illusion: Malgorzata Szumowska on The Other Lamb | Interviews
by Mary Beth McAndrews April 2, 2021 | Print Page Tweet Cults are in vogue right now. No, not joining them, but absorbing all you can learn about them, and trying to understand the psychology […]
The Other Lamb movie review & film summary (2020)
Malgorzata Szumowska’s “The Other Lamb” opens with a number of tell-tale signs that something is not quite right. While women and girls in prairie dresses and uniformly braided hair attend to daily chores around a […]