Movies

10 NEW TO NETFLIX“Beast““Benedetta““Bugonia““The End of the Tour““First Reformed““HIM““Krisha““Mass““Pig““Sing Street“12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD“28 Years Later: The Bone Temple“It’s legitimately hard to believe this played in multiplexes across the country. Sure, last year’s “28 Years Later” was legitimately intense, but...

In its 42nd year, the Chicago Latino Film Festival succeeds in bringing an international array of films that showcase the complexity, diversity, and passion of the diaspora’s stories and the excellence in which they are told through the cinematic...

The 13th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, an event for which I am the co-producer and several other RogerEbert.com contributors are programmers, launches this week at the Music Box Theatre, where over two dozen Chicago premieres will unfold to...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that some literary projects are simply not meant to be reimagined as feature films or television series. Or, at least, it used to be. Now, with successful adaptations of previously deemed “unfilmable” classics like...

Coachella recently wrapped up its 25th edition, and the main takeaway was that women ruled. Superstars such as Sabrina Carpenter and Addison Rae reaffirmed their global dominance, offering energetic sets highlighted by expert choreography, arresting songs, and a compelling...

Trailers for director David Lowery’s “Mother Mary” have cheekily referred to it as “Not a ghost story,” likely a reference to the director’s 2017 film of the same name. Make no mistake, though: this is very much an exorcism...

Yes, on the one hand, even doing an animated spin-off of Netflix’s pop culture juggernaut “Stranger Things” feels a bit like a cash grab, but cartoon installments in hit franchises, especially those with young audiences, are common across the...

I’ve always been amused by sports-themed movies and TV series that exist in a parallel universe with fictional teams, e.g., the New York Knights in “The Natural,”  the Miami Sharks in “Any Given Sunday,” and AFC Richmond in “Ted...