
What If a Movie Called IF Found an Audience?
Critics were mostly ho-hum about “If,” but it’s a sneakily powerful dream-logic movie
Critics were mostly ho-hum about “If,” but it’s a sneakily powerful dream-logic movie
Before watching the new Apple TV+ limited series based on the blockbuster Scott Turow book, let’s look back at a bygone age when quality airport reads regularly got turned into classy big-screen dramas.
Four films with common denominators helped define the public and Hollywood mindsets during the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign in varying ways.
Too often, we overvalue actors who expertly imitate their iconic real-life subjects. A great biopic performance often requires more than mimicry.
Years ago, this overlooked 2016 comedy hinted at the Hit Man actor’s movie-star potential.
For all the hemming and hawing about how kids these days don’t engage with movies anymore, I choose to give myself reasons to hope.
On the franchise-defining entry to the Harry Potter franchise, two decades on.
People forget that the ‘Martin’ star got top-billing over Will Smith. Here’s a look back at how big he was back then.
A new short film for your viewing pleasure, along with an interview with the director.
Richard Linklater’s new Netflix comedy is just the latest illustration of how we idolize and idealize big-screen assassins—even though the characters rarely live up to our image of them as super-cool killers.
What’s broken in moviegoing, and some ideas for fixing it.
On the teen religious comedy and its impact on a generation of faith-frazzled millennials.
The hip arthouse distributor has claimed the top prize at the last five Cannes Film Festivals. In honor of “Anora,” we rank them all, from very good to all-time classics.
Daniel Kaluuya may have won an Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah, but it feels even timelier now than when it came out as protests rage across the country.
An excerpt from a great new book by Alonso Duralde.
Inclusivity isn’t new in romantic drama, even if Bridgerton has made it a big part of the conversation again.
An announcement of new team members at RogerEbert.com.
Tangible warmth is a fundamental component of many of Hamaguchi’s most notable works.
Unavailable for decades and loathed by the band, this 1970 film is finally getting its due—and paints the Fab Four’s final days in poignant, tense tones.