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I Hate Lists, But … The Best Movies of 2016

The Roger Ebert contributors each submitted our own individual Top 10 Lists for 2016 – compiled here. As mentioned in the introduction, the NUMBER of titles – all total – that show up on this list is a testament to … Continue reading

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Performances I Loved This Year

I still haven’t seen a couple of big ones. Hence … it’s a work in progress, and I’m sure I’m forgetting people. But these stand out. Royalty Hightower, “The Fits” [My review] Matthias Schoenaerts, “A Bigger Splash” Cliff Curtis, “The … Continue reading

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2016 Movies To See

Out Now Out Soon Out Earlier This Year

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September 2016 Viewing Diary

Kicks (2016; d. Justin Tipping) Absolutely loved it. There have been so many excellent first-time directors making features this year. My review for Rogerebert.com. Kiss Me Deadly (1955; d. Robert Aldrich) I love this bizarre paranoid insanely phantasmagorical … film … Continue reading

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Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016); d. The Coen Brothers

That’s the official poster. Boring. I like this one much better. In comparison to Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail, Caesar! has an outlook on humanity that is damn near sunny. Inside Llewyn Davis’ was a well-observed portrayal of the coffee-house folk-music … Continue reading

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The Trailer for the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar!: “I Can’t Wait” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

I’m hyperventilating. Scarlett Johanssen as a cross between Esther Williams, Jean Harlow, and Carole Lombard? Her voice! The tough-dame voice that no longer exists in cinema anywhere? Tilda Swinton as Hedda Hopper? George Clooney as a pre-verbal Clark Gable type? … Continue reading

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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013); directed by Jim Jarmusch

It’s a rare movie that wraps you up in its own unique dreamspace. I suppose that’s the ultimate goal for any director, and any scriptwriter, too. Many movies try to do that. Many movies fail. The story, whatever it is, … Continue reading

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Snowpiercer (2014); directed by Bong Joon Ho

In order to combat global warming, various nations on the planet decide to inject the atmosphere with a coolant. The film opens with a bright blue sky, and three planes careening by far above, leaving behind a white trail of … Continue reading

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Ebert Fest 2013: Two Panels, Two Films, and the Glorious Tilda Swinton

The organ pipes in The Virginia Theatre, Urbana, Illinois. Photo by me at Ebert Fest. All throughout Ebert Fest, there were amazing panels, held at the Pine Lounge in the gorgeous student union (which also had the hotel attached to … Continue reading

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Young Adam: Some Thoughts

I can’t say what Young Adam was about. It has no meaning. It is aimless, but I think that that is the point. The main character is a drifter. A man with a fluid identity. He moves from here to … Continue reading

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