Alpha
There’s a pleasant, old-fashioned feel to Alpha.
Jonah Hill
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
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Donnie
Susan Wloszczyna -
Why Him? (2016)
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Writer (story)
Christy Lemire -
War Dogs (2016)
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Efraim Diveroli
Matt Zoller Seitz -
Sausage Party (2016)
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Carl (voice), Writer (story by)
Glenn Kenny -
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
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Joseph Silverman
Glenn Kenny -
True Story (2015)
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Michael Finkel
Glenn Kenny -
22 Jump Street (2014)
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Schmidt
Matt Zoller Seitz -
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
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Snotlout (voice)
Susan Wloszczyna -
The Lego Movie (2014)
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Green Lantern (voice)
Susan Wloszczyna -
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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Donnie Azoff
Matt Zoller Seitz -
This Is the End (2013)
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Jonah Hill
Odie Henderson -
The Watch (2012)
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Franklin
Roger Ebert -
21 Jump Street (2012)
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Schmidt, Written by
Roger Ebert -
The Sitter (2011)
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Noah
Roger Ebert -
Moneyball (2011)
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Peter Brand
Roger Ebert -
Megamind (2010)
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Hal/Titan
Roger Ebert -
Cyrus (2010)
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Cyrus
Roger Ebert -
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
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Aaron Green
Roger Ebert -
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
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Snotlout
Roger Ebert -
The Invention of Lying (2009)
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Frank
Roger Ebert -
Funny People (2009)
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Leo
Roger Ebert -
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
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Matthew
Jim Emerson -
Superbad (2007)
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Seth
Roger Ebert
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist’s work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
Berlin 2018: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” “Optimism,” “L. Cohen”
A report from the Berlin Film Festival on three new projects, including the latest from Gus Van Sant.
Sundance 2018 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
110 independent films have been announced to premiere at next January's Sundance Film Festival.
Amy Heckerling on "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Clueless" and more
Writer/director Amy Heckerling takes a look back at her career.
2016 Fall Movie Preview: 50 Movies That'll Prove Film Isn’t Dead
An extensive preview of 50 films coming out within the next four months, from "Sully" to "Toni Erdmann."
2016 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival, Part II
A preview of dozens of films coming out this summer.
Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2015: "Living In The Sprawl: Superbad’s Coming-of-Age in the Suburban Void" by Charles Bramesco
The September except from "Bright Wall/Dark Room" on "Superbad."
Who's Who In Reviews: Glenn Kenny
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com film critic Glenn Kenny.
Thumbnails 4/6/15
How Allison Jones reshaped American comedy; History of Max Headroom; Matthew Modine's "Full Metal Jacket Diary"; Bone broth is hot ham water; A physicist explains "Furious 7."
Sundance 2015: “I Am Michael,” “True Story,” “Mississippi Grind,” “Digging For Fire”
A Sundance dispatch on "I Am Michael," "True Story," "Mississippi Grind" and "Digging For Fire".
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 20, 2014
Comic-Con 2014: Highlights From the Pressroom
Highlights from the 2014 Comic-Con, including "Mad Max: Fury Road," "The Book of Life," "The Boxtrolls," "Hitman: Agent 47," and more.
Surprises, Snubs and Fun Facts: The 86th Oscar Nominations
What were the surprises, snubs and twists of today's Oscar nominations?
Which Movies Would Roger Choose?
Missing Roger's Oscars prognostications and his top ten lists. And making a list of my own.
#189 October 16, 2013
Sheila writes: We're all familiar with the horror movie cliche: someone (usually a woman) is alone, creeped out, and investigating a sound she finds ominous. Naturally, it turns out to be just a cat, but that cat can give a pretty good scare. Thankfully, we now have "Supercut: It's Just a Cat" to get our feline scare-fix all in one place.
David Gordon Green's Traveling Movie Circus
Director David Gordon Green has had a remarkably eclectic career, from delicate indies like "George Washington" to stoner comedy "Your Highness," with stops along the way for the "Halftime in America" Chrysler ad and episodes of HBO's "Eastbound & Down." What keeps him going?
#176 July 17, 2013
Marie writes: Last week, in response to a club member comment re: whatever happened to Ebert Club merchandize (turned out to be too costly to set up) I had promised to share a free toy instead - an amusement, really, offered to MailChimp clients; the mail service used to send out notices. Allow me to introduce you to their mascot...
#172 June 19, 2013
Marie writes: Widely regarded as THE quintessential Art House movie, "Last Year at Marienbad" has long since perplexed those who've seen it; resulting in countless Criterion-esque essays speculating as to its meaning whilst knowledge of the film itself, often a measure of one's rank and standing amongst coffee house cinephiles. But the universe has since moved on from artsy farsty French New Wave. It now prefers something braver, bolder, more daring...
#163 Special Edition
Marie writes: I was looking for something to make Roger laugh, when the phone rang. It was a bad connection, but this much I did hear: "Roger has died." That's how I learned he was gone, and my first thought was of the cruel and unfair timing of it. He'd been on the verge of realizing a life long dream: to be the captain of his own ship.
#141 November 7, 2012
Marie writes: "let's see what happens if I tickle him with my stick..."(Photo by Daniel Botelho. Click image to enlarge.)
#117 May 30, 2012
Marie writes: Recently, a fellow artist and friend sent me the following photos featuring amazing glass mosaics. She didn't know who the artists were however - and which set me off on a journey to find out! I confess, the stairs currently continue to thwart me and thus remain a mystery, but I did uncover who created the "glass bottle doorway" and was surprised to learn both its location and the inspiration behind it. (click image.)
#114 May 9, 2012
Marie writes: Intrepid club member Sandy Kahn discovered the following Danish designers "Monstrum" who make extraordinary playgrounds for children. I think they're the stuff of dreams, whatever your age. Indeed; behold the Rahbek kindergarten in Frederiksberg, Denmark, and Monstrum's first playground...
The Rocket and The Princess Tower! "Just like a set design, a playground must have an inspiring front that attracts children, and a functional backside with climbing, sliding and relaxing options. The idea of the playground is to combine a girl's mind with a boy's approach into one big common playground. The princess tower consists of three floors, and the rocket has two floors. From the top floor of the Rocket, you can slide down the 6 m long double slide together with an astronaut friend." (click to enlarge.)
#105 March 7, 2012
Marie writes: I can't prove it but I'm convinced they're related.
Complete list of Academy Award nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Complete list of 84th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:
And the Oscar nominations go to...
Hollywood nostalgia may be warmly embraced Tuesday morning when the 2012 Academy awards nominations are announced. Films involving the invention of the cinema, the transition from Silent to Talkies and the legend of Marilyn Monroe are among those certain to be nominated.
Moments Out of Time 2012
Here's what you've been waiting for: Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy present their annual "Moments Out of Time" ("Images, lines, gestures, moods from the year's films") at MSN Movies. It's kind of like film criticism as haiku. But, you know, without haiku rules. They're short poems.
From RTJ's intro at his online movie magazine, Straight Shooting:
Kathleen Murphy and I first threw together a "Moments out of Time" feature for the year 1971. I'd had a brief go at it in 1969 for Seattle's premier counterculture rag The Helix, and pretty perfunctory it was--only a dozen or so films referred to, in lines like "The terrible beauty of The Wild Bunch...." The 1971 tribute ran to several pages of the first 1972 issue of Movietone News, the Seattle Film Society newsletter that, just about that time, turned the evolutionary corner en route to becoming a legitimate film journal. As for "Moments out of Time," it continued, and grew, each year through the decade MTN was published. Subsequently it appeared when and where opportunity presented--including one year in the early 2000s when our host was the spiffy German film mag Steadycam. For the past half-dozen years we've been graciously showcased by the Movies section at MSN.com, where editor Dave McCoy has patiently accommodated us as we (all right, I) send one e-mail after another, tweaking words and punctuation to get the lines to bump in the right place.
A dozen of my favorites:
-- "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy": Control (John Hurt), aced out of MI6 after the disaster in Budapest, announces, "Smiley is coming with me." Smiley (Gary Oldman), his back to the camera, tilts his head a millimeter -- surprise? acceptance? both?...
-- Upside-down shadows of kids at play on gray asphalt, swinging from the top of the frame in "The Tree of Life"...
-- "Midnight in Paris": the evolution of the expression on Gil (Owen Wilson) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald has just introduced him to Ernest Hemingway -- from gobsmacked to go-with-the-flow delight...
-- A drop of perspiration falling onto a café tabletop, fatally fracturing the fourth wall of a Hungarian "play" in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"...
