Movies

<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2025/05/20/rev-1-grc-trl2-006r_high_res_jpeg_wide-5480cb6d8e360eb8c0ba81ab8cd8eb2c984d6249.jpeg' alt='Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Sinners.'/>The movie ends, and the credits roll. That used to be your cue to start heading to the parking lot to debrief with your friends. That was...

Celebrating its twelfth year, the Chicago Critics Film Festival returned with a robust lineup of over two dozen films and hosted the largest number of in-person guests in its history. On the red carpet, RogerEbert.com spoke with the talent in...

Bearing no relation to the Joseph Conrad novel, the competition entry “The Secret Agent,” from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), is a tricky item to discuss. Not only does it have the kind of convoluted plot—filled with...

“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom psychedelic therapies. The second season duplicates that formula with...

Normally, for these dispatches, we try to pair films within their respective sections. But Cannes is such a massive undertaking that it feels more apropos to jump from section to section in the same way many critics do. As...

It’s funny, in a world where the “Andor” finale gave us the recent return of K-2SO, “Star Wars”‘s most invigoratingly droll assault droid, to see another sci-fi show crop up with another similarly cynical murder-bot. But along comes Apple...

“In a nutshell,” says Dr. Faye Miller to Don Draper during the fourth season of “Mad Men,” “it all comes down to what I want versus what’s expected of me.” But what if you are terrified of the things...