New television rests for no one. The new year may be just beginning but the wheel keeps spinning and spitting out new shows. The first few weeks of January will see the return of “The X-Files” on FOX, the premiere of Lena Waithe’s...
Growing old can be a bitch for anyone. But just try doing it if you are a middle-aged blonde bombshell left adrift on the outskirts of showbiz, beset by waning health and fading fame. The curiously titled “Film Stars Don’t Die in...
Below is a collection of some of our favorite conversations from this year. Each interview features a quote from the conversation, as followed by a link at the end to the full interview. Enjoy this survey into a year of top-notch work from actors...
If he can help it, Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) barely looks at people. The master dressmaker at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” is too busy to avert his gaze from his work, and the interruption...
For those of you who were distressed to hear that the remake of “Death Wish” was having its original Thanksgiving release date bumped and despaired that you might have to go through the entire holiday season without seeing a single film...
Schoolkids who are facing midnight on Sunday and still haven't written their school papers on P.T. Barnum had better not turn to the musical extravaganza "The Greatest Showman" for notes. This majestically asinine film elides or ignores much of the...
Few actors in cinema history have been granted a film debut as monumental as the one Jamie Bell had in the title role of Stephen Daldry’s sublime 2000 crowd-pleaser, “Billy Elliot.” Like his iconic character, Bell began dancing at...
Charlie Brooker and the team behind the beloved “Black Mirror” are back with six more mini-movies for you to binge just in time for the New Year. In a sense, these are the perfect final note for a year in which many people felt trapped,...
Matt writes: For our final newsletter of 2017, we are providing a round-up of the RogerEbert.com lists ranking the best films of the year. The cumulative top 10 list from the writers at our site placed Greta Gerwig's sharply insightful directorial...
Molly Bloom hustles and jostles. She sizzles and dazzles, and whatever room she’s in, she’s totally in command—that is, until she isn’t. Even then, though, she’s irrepressibly verbal—able to articulate everything,...