Remembering Gene Wilder
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History of the World, Part II
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Toy Story 4
Melephant Brooks (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Vlad (voice)
Leap!
Mustachioed Creep (voice)
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Himself
Hotel Transylvania 2
Vlad
Robots
Big Weld
Life Stinks
Goddard Bolt
Spaceballs
Skroob/Yogurt
To Be or Not To Be
Bronski
The Muppet Movie
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Get Smart
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100 Great Moments in the Movies
Buddy Hackett: Up at drama, down at comedy.
Opening Shots: The Producers (1968)
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I Think Of Them As The Work: Gene Hackman (1930-2025)
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A Prophet is Without Honor in His Own Country; or, The Curious Case of Clint Eastwood
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A Man Goes to the Movies: An Appreciation of Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Lists
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The Enduring Laughs—and Life—of Harold Ramis
Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like Coyote vs Acme Should Be a Crime
2024 Awards Season Kickoff: Palm Springs, Variety Honorees, Golden Globes, Governors Awards
R.I.P. Icon Norman Lear, Thank You for Your Century of Inspiration
Venice Film Festival 2023: Poor Things, Maestro, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Killer
Laurel and Hardy: Year One is Another Fine Blu-ray from Flicker Alley
Happy 100th Birthday to Norman Lear!
The Space Left on the Screen is For You to Fill: Scott Ryan on Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared
A True Artiste: Lloyd Kaufman on His Career and His Final Film
You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim): Patricia J. Sobczynski, 1941-2021
Cloris Leachman: 1926-2021
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
Celebrating Living Legend Norman Lear on His 98th Birthday
Living Legends: A Salute to Norman Lear
Enter Laughing: Carl Reiner, 1922-2020
East Meets West: Arthur Dong on Hollywood Chinese
We Are All Connected: Backstage at the 2020 Academy Awards
Buck Henry: 1930-2020
Jojo Rabbit Wins Audience Award and Taika Waititi Wins Ebert Director Award at TIFF
Home Entertainment Guide: July 25, 2019
It’s the Favorite Thing I’ve Ever Done: Carl Reiner on the Return of The Dick Van Dyke Show to MeTV
Richard Dreyfuss and Deborah Kolar, Daughter of Robert Shaw, on Jaws
CIFF 2018: Friedkin Uncut, The Great Buster
Neil Simon: 1927-2018
KVIFF 2018: Closing Night, Barry Levinson and Four More Highlights
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Sundance 2018: Damsel, Puzzle, The Happy Prince
Short Films in Focus: “Approaching a Breakthrough”
An American Original: The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Jerry Lewis
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
“It’s Peckinpah-tastic!”: On Edgar Wright’s Feature Debut, “A Fistful of Fingers”
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Cannes 2017: “A Prayer Before Dawn,” “The Merciless”
Ebertfest 2017: “Hair” and “Being There”
Nitrate and Old Favorites: A Recap of the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival
Mysterious Beauty: A David Lynch Retrospective Comes to IFC Center
Sundance 2017: “The Incredible Jessica James” & “The Little Hours”
NYFF 2016: Preview of the 54th New York Film Festival
Gene Wilder 1933 – 2016
It’s Over the Ocean to Scranton, Pennsylvania: An Appreciation of “The In-Laws”
Living with Our Common Humanity: A Few Words with Norman Lear
Mark Caro Presents “Is It Still Funny?” at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre
Tribeca 2016: “Midsummer in Newtown,” “The Last Laugh” & “My Scientology Movie”
Meet the Writers: Monica Castillo
My Sundance Trifecta 2016
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Who’s Who In Reviews: Simon Abrams
Madeline Kahn: “Why Are You Laughing?”
FX Pairs Billy Crystal and Louis CK on Thursday Nights
Meet the Writers: Matt Fagerholm
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 23, 2014
Defying Explanation: The Brilliance of David Lynch’s “Eraserhead”
Mike Sacks, Author of “Poking a Dead Frog,” Explores the Comedic Process
Comic-Con 2014: “The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story”
Simply Do it: Talking with Woody Allen About Directorial Style
Meet the Writers: Simon Abrams
In the Company of the King: Johnny Carson Interviews on TCM
It Really Is De-Lovely: At Long Last, “At Long Last Love” Returns
My Ten Greatest Movies
Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)
DGA hails “Slumdog Millionaire,” Ebert made a lifetime member
Hey, Dude: Jeff Dowd downloads on the Sparo-at-the Yarrow
Now, that’s funny
100 great movie moments
Taking the off ramp to reality
10 Years in the Dark
Faces in the crowd: Here’s looking at you, Nashville
Shocking! Attend the hair of Sweeney Todd
The Tropic Thunder publicity stunt boycott
One of the most disgusting horror films ever made
War of the Arrows: Deadly targets
Woody Allen: Manhattan Moviemaker Mystery
Memories are made of this
Remembering Gene
Oh, how I wish you could hear this!
Berlinale 2012: The tantalizing and the taboo
Ebert’s memories of Cannes past
