The organizers of Mexico’s Los Cabos International Film
Festival understandably put an emphasis on “international,” but this year they
might have promoted it as something else: intergalactic.
On the festival’s final night,...
In the sublime “Late Spring,” directed by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu, an incandescent moment occurs as the vivacious Noriko enjoys an afternoon sojourn at the beach with her father’s assistant Hattori (Jun Usami).
Ozu’s...
If you’re ever unlucky enough to be strolling around New York’s Times Square aimlessly, you are very likely to be accosted by an eager young man or woman who’ll breathlessly ask you “Hey, do you like COMEDY?” And talk...
Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” has garnered more than its fair share
of controversy from people who haven’t even seen the film. When they do, the
narrative will change. We’ll stop complaining about the title and we won’t...
Sheila writes: To all the American readers of The Ebert Club, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! To spread a little joy, here is a glorious and fun "dance mash-up" of classic dance scenes from Hollywood films, to the soundtrack of "Uptown...
Can a movie be impeccably made—well-cast and strongly acted, flawlessly appointed and gorgeously shot—yet still leave you cold? Can it do everything right technically without touching you emotionally? Can it offer a transporting...
1."Valerie Weiss on 'A Light Beneath Their Feet'": The director chats with me at Indie Outlook about her wonderful film, scheduled to screen December 3rd and 4th at the Whistler Film Festival in Canada.“Since I started out as an actor, I...
Editor's note: To give you a chance to get to know our writers better, we've asked them to respond to some questions. In coming weeks, we'll be posting their responses, which will always be available as a link from their contributor biography page....
Reflecting on Nick Berardini's “Killing Them Safely” on the night of Chicago protests for another death of a civilian due by excessive police force, the tension between civilians and law enforcement remains thoroughly despairing. Both...
Director Todd Haynes proved his knack for capturing high gloss sumptuous period pieces with an underbelly of taboo love in 2002's "Far From Heaven." In his new film, "Carol," he brings to the screen Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Price of Salt" set...