Great Movies
Roger Ebert
The year's ten best films and other shenanigans
by Roger Ebert
by Roger Ebert
Q. I am a devoted fan of Ian McEwan’s novel "Atonement," one of those books that raises your heartbeat and ignites conflicting emotions and thoughts like fireworks exploding in the sky. So many nights I returned to that book to…
This is not a "chick flick." The DVD cover (right) misrepresents the movie. I resisted seeing John Carney's "Once" at first. Sounded to me a little too much like what, in the 1970s, somebody might have called a "folk opera"…
View image Matt Damon and Julia Stiles scope out the situation in "The Bourne Ultimatum." Kathleen Murphy and Richard T. Jameson present their much-anticipated annual list of indelible memories-at-24-fps, Moments Out of Time, at MSN Movies. They've been sifting through…
My favorite documentary of 2007 (which I haven't had a chance to write about yet) is Gary Hustwit's "Helvetica," a look at a ubiquitous typeface. It's the kind of movie that helps you to see the world around you anew,…
View image A shadow in the light from a doorway. It wasn't even close. In the MSN Movies 2007 Top 10 Poll, Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men" scored 106 points out of a possible 120 --…
View image Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem): You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't. (A comment by Phillip Kelly in reply to an earlier post made me chuckle and got me thinking. He wrote:…
View image And the Exploding Head goes to... Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in "Knocked Up"? I'll publish my annotated "best of" list next week, but while thinking back over the year's movies I recalled some things that seemed to…
Q: The box-office returns for "The Golden Compass" last weekend were modest at best. The film is estimated to have cost more than $150 million and will have a hard time making its money back. The financial disappointment could be…
From Jonathan D'Ambrosio, Fairfield, CT:
