Heretic movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert
With its limited set, it helps a great deal to have a masterful cinematographer to shoot “Heretic,” so kudos to whoever hired Chung-hoon Chung, the man who shot “The Handmaiden,” “Oldboy,” and many others.His camera swoops through this increasingly threatening house in such a captivating manner, staring down its dark hallways and staircases in a way that allows us to …
Challengers movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
What a situation! The instability of it keeps “Challengers” on its toes even when it’s on the verge of getting tripped up by plot machinations and the past/present storytelling churn of Justin Kuritzkes’ screenplay and Marco Costa’s editing. There’s a lively cinematic subgenre that deconstructs the rise and fall of a relationship by jumping around in time—two excellent examples ...
Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert
Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert
Saturday Night movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Oct 10, 2024 · Director Jason Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan plunge the audience into the deep end of the chaos with just 90 minutes to go before showtime. Reitman and cinematographer Eric Steelberg keep the camera in motion alongside Michaels, trailing him almost constantly at a dizzy speed, running through the hallways past llamas, flying dress racks, and NBC pages.
The Best Films of 2024 So Far | Features - Roger Ebert
Jun 25, 2024 · The signature shades of David Lynch and Henry James are left like paint on the surface of a pool; we must sink below them to discover what he’s searching for beneath the obvious references to LA surrealism, school shooters, and climate change. That identity is a performance; that romance is implanted like the Manchurian Candidate’s code phrase; that …
White Bird movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Oct 4, 2024 · Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), the movie is also also a sequel of sorts—perhaps it’s more accurate to call it a “universe expander”—to 2017 “Wonder,” Stephan Chbosky’s film of a Palacio novel about a smart, kindhearted, wise boy named August “Auggie” Pullman who was born with a facial deformity, mandibulofacial dysostosis, and struggled to be …
It’s What’s Inside movie review (2024) - Roger Ebert
Oct 4, 2024 · “It’s What’s Inside” is a comedy with a gentle sprinkling of horror elements. As bodies trade off and the characters explore what they can do anonymously or find newfound confidence in the objects of their envy, Jardin only scratches the surface on his format’s horrifying and existential capacity.
Inside Out 2 movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert
Even with these bumps, “Inside Out 2” zips confidently along, fashioning a hypnotic and transportive imaginativeness that is incredible to take in. Powered by an aching core of emotion, the film still manages to be a wondrous distillation of the overwhelming angst, incredible solitude, and difficult changes many teenagers are going through.
Joker: Folie à Deux movie review (2024) - Roger Ebert
Oct 3, 2024 · What set me off was the film’s climax, in which Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, now gone almost full Joker, appears on a late-night talk show hosted by glib showman Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro). Franklin’s object is a mockery of the man in the clown makeup. But Arthur has the last laugh: he pulls out a gun and blows Franklin’s brains out on live TV.
Dune: Part Two movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Mar 1, 2024 · The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” is “massive.” Expect a whole lot of variations on the words “epic” and “spectacle” too. Whatever big words you apply to the result, Villeneuve undeniably did not approach Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi novel with modest aspirations, and it’s his ambition, along with the top …