La La Land
This is a beautiful film about love and dreams, and how the two impact each other.
This is a beautiful film about love and dreams, and how the two impact each other.
Everything here feels routine—more like an inevitability than a work of art or even a piece of entertainment.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara Scharres on the cats of Cannes 2016.
Russ Meyer's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," written by Roger Ebert, will be released on Criterion Blu-ray/DVD on September 27.
Writers at RogerEbert.com share their favorite "Star Trek" moments in honor of the original TV series' 50th anniversary.
A comparison between the recent version of "Ben-Hur" and the classic 1959 version by William Wyler.
A table of contents for Omer M. Mozaffar's four-part essay series on Islam in Western cinema.
On four films from TIFF, including ones starring Olivia Cooke and Riz Ahmed.
A dispatch on three films from TIFF from around the world.
Alissa Wilkinson is a critic, journalist, and professor living in Brooklyn. Her work appears at Vulture, Rolling Stone, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is co-author, with Rob Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans, 2016) and is at work on Orphaned Believers: Reframing Religion in the Age of Faith-Based Film (The Critical Press, 2017). Alissa is Christianity Today's critic at large and an assistant professor of English and humanities at The King's College in downtown Manhattan. She tweets @alissamarie.
An interview with director Robert Greene about "Kate Plays Christine," nonfiction storytelling, a documentarian's honesty and much more.
On images of wanderers of the American west in TV shows like "True Detective," "Preacher" and "Outcast."
An interview with director Anne Fontaine about her new film "The Innocents."
Alissa Wilkinson picks one of her favorite reviews by Roger Ebert.
Interviews with actors Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst about Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special.
A report from the 2016 True/False documentary film festival in Columbia, Missouri.
An interview with director Jeff Nichols and star Michael Shannon of "Midnight Special" from Berlin.