Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert
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The Matrix Resurrections movie review (2021) - Roger Ebert
WEBDec 21, 2021 · “The Matrix Resurrections” is the first “Matrix” movie since 2003’s “The Matrix Revolutions,” but it is not the first time we’ve seen the franchise in theaters this year.That distinction goes to “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” the cinematic shareholder meeting for Warner Bros. with special celebrity guests that inserted Looney Tunes …
The Best Action Movies of 2021 - Roger Ebert
WEBAction came back in a big way in 2021 after delayed films like “F9” and “No Time to Die” were released in theaters, and the MCU dropped four movies in the second half of the year. These are the best action movies of 2021, according to the assigned critics of RogerEbert.com.The biggest action movies of the year weren’t always the best action …
Spider-Man: No Way Home movie review (2021) - Roger Ebert
WEB148 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2021. Brian Tallerico. December 14, 2021. 6 min read. The best of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” reminded me why I used to love comic books, especially the ones about a boy named Peter Parker. There was a playful unpredictability to them that has often been missing from modern superhero movies, which feel so precisely ...
Beetlejuice movie review & film summary (1988) - Roger Ebert
WEB92 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1988. Roger Ebert. March 30, 1988. 3 min read. `Beetlejuice” gets off to a start that’s so charming it never lives it down. The movie is all anticlimax once we realize it’s going to be about gimmicks, not characters. During the enchanted opening minutes of the film, we meet a young married couple who have just moved ...
Joker movie review & film summary (2019) - Roger Ebert
WEBSep 30, 2019 · The violence in this movie means to shock, and it does. Fleck’s alienation in the early scenes evokes Travis Bickle’s, but this movie is too chicken-livered to give Fleck Bickle’s racism, although it depicts him mostly getting hassled by people of color in the first third. Fleck is also fixated with a Carson-like talk-show host played by ...
The Shawshank Redemption movie review (1994) - Roger Ebert
WEBRoger Ebert. September 23, 1994. 4 min read. Red (Morgan Freeman, left) and Andy (Tim Robbins) are prisoners who form a friendship in "The Shawshank Redemption." “The Shawshank Redemption” is a movie about time, patience and loyalty — not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which ...
The Black Phone movie review & film summary (2022) - Roger Ebert
WEBJun 23, 2022 · The finesse with which Thames and McGraw seamlessly balance a wide range of emotions is a feat. Fear, anger, desperation, and indignation drizzle delicately into moments of youthful glee and adolescent comedy. The punchlines in “The Black Phone” are natural with how the film centralizes young teenagers. Both Thames and McGraw …
Parasite movie review & film summary (2019) - Roger Ebert
WEBSep 7, 2019 · The second half of “Parasite” is one of the most daring things I’ve seen in years narratively. The film constantly threatens to come apart—to take one convoluted turn too many in ways that sink the project—but Bong holds it all together, and the result is breathtaking. Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik) and his family live on the edge of poverty.
Interstellar movie review & film summary (2014) | Roger Ebert
WEBNovember 3, 2014. 8 min read. Interstellar. Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” about astronauts traveling to the other end of the galaxy to find a new home to replace humanity’s despoiled home-world, is frantically busy and earsplittingly loud. It uses booming music to jack up the excitement level of scenes that might not otherwise excite.