Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2024 | Features
Chaz Ebert: As Roger Ebert would have said “Two Thumbs Up” for our Top Ten Lists! For a Film Critic, putting together a Top Ten Best Movies List at the…
‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Nickel Boys’ Lead 2024 CFCA Awards | Festivals and Awards
The Chicago Film Critics Association presented its awards last night and Remmel Ross was the big winner, taking home Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker…
Netflix faithfully embraces “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” for better and worse TV/Streaming
Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 epic novel, Cien Años De Soledad ,One Hundred Years of Solitude), is similar to the Latin American canon moby dickIt earned the Colombian author the Nobel…
Netflix’s “No Good Deed” is a brilliant black comedy about the problems of home buying. TV/Streaming
“Dead to Me” creator Liz Feldman has once again brought a brilliant and heartwarming comedy to Netflix. This time around, the series follows married couple Lydia (Lisa Kudrow) and Paul…
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program | Festivals & Awards
It’s hard to believe it’s that time again but Sundance is almost upon us. The annual January event in Park City (for now, at least), announced a wide-ranging, diverse program…
A moral compass: Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benes, and Tim Fehlbaum on “September 5” Interview
"September 5" is the story of a small group of ABC television sports journalists who were covering the 1972 Munich Olympics when Baader-Meinhof terrorists attacked Israeli athletes. The ABC team,…
“Indiana Jones and the Great Circle” is the antidote to modern big-budget game fatigue. video games
In 1981, Roger Ebert called "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" "a film of out-of-body experience, brilliant imagination and breakneck pace that grabs you at the first…
‘The Brutalist’ leads Chicago Film Critics Association nominees Festivals and Awards
Brady Corbett's "The Brutalist" was the big film for the Chicago Film Critics Association this year, topping the nominations with 9 nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and…
The Best Films of 2024 | Features
What a year. It’s that time on the calendar when a site like RogerEbert.com is asked to distill the entire year to a list, but the best films of 2024…
Plant a Tree: Ramel Ross, Ethan Harris, Brandon Wilson, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on “Nickel Boys” | Interview
Director Remmel Ross, and his stellar cast of Brandon Wilson, Ethan Harris, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor sat down with us in Telluride months ago to discuss “Nickel Boys,” his adaptation of…