Woman of the Hour movie review (2024) - Roger Ebert
Oct 18, 2024 · “You’re beautiful,” Alcala says to all of his victims, mostly women on the margins of society. He is a photographer. He knows the power of his gaze, of his camera. Kendrick begins her film with a victim who was murdered in 1977.
White Bird movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Oct 4, 2024 · Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), the movie is also also a sequel of sorts—perhaps it’s more accurate to call it a “universe expander”—to 2017 “Wonder,” Stephan Chbosky’s film of a Palacio novel about a smart, kindhearted, wise boy named August “Auggie” Pullman who was born with a facial deformity, mandibulofacial …
Challengers movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Apr 26, 2024 · What a situation! The instability of it keeps “Challengers” on its toes even when it’s on the verge of getting tripped up by plot machinations and the past/present storytelling churn of Justin Kuritzkes’ screenplay and Marco Costa’s editing. There’s a lively cinematic subgenre that deconstructs the rise and fall of a relationship by jumping around …
Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert
Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert
The Best Films of 2024 So Far | Features - Roger Ebert
Jun 25, 2024 · The signature shades of David Lynch and Henry James are left like paint on the surface of a pool; we must sink below them to discover what he’s searching for beneath the obvious references to LA surrealism, school shooters, and climate change. That identity is a performance; that romance is implanted like the Manchurian Candidate’s code phrase; that fulfillment has always been controlled ...
The Beast movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Apr 3, 2024 · The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”) is a 1903 short story by Henry James called “The Beast in the Jungle.” Seen by some James scholars as an autobiographical expression of rue for a life of inaction, it treats the case of John Marcher, who confides in his acquaintance May Bartram that …
Inheritance movie review & film summary (2020) - Roger Ebert
May 22, 2020 · Archer Monroe (Patrick Warburton), a powerful and wealthy man, dies suddenly.At the reading of the will, his also-powerful son and daughter learn that they have not been treated equally. He left $20 million to his son William (Chase Crawford), a Congressman in a tight race for re-election.But he left just $1 million to his daughter Lauren (Lily Collins), a New York District Attorney known for ...
Great Movies - Roger Ebert
One of the gifts a movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered. Here are more than 300 reconsiderations and appreciations of movies from the distant past to the recent past, all of movies that I consider worthy of being called "great." - …
Ten Greatest Films of All Time - Roger Ebert
Dec 19, 2012 · If I must make a list of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, my first vow is to make the list for myself, not for anybody else. I am sure than Eisenstein’s “The Battleship Potemkin” is a great film, but it’s not going on my list simply so I can impress people. Nor will I avoid “Casablanca” simply because it’s so popular: I love it all the same.
Parasite movie review & film summary (2019) - Roger Ebert
Sep 7, 2019 · Bong has made several films about class (including “Snowpiercer” and “Okja“), but “Parasite” may be his most daring examination of the structural inequity that has come to define the world. It is a tonal juggling act that first feels like a satire—a comedy of manners that bounces a group of lovable con artists off a very wealthy family of awkward eccentrics.