Adam Sandler does That Voice again in the animated movie “Leo,” when bringing a slight personality to a 74-year-old class…
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Last month, RogerEbert.com Senior Editor Nick Allen moderated a panel with the directors of some of the most anticipated international films…
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“This is a true story.” This opening text, in both Joel and Ethan Coen’s Midwestern crime classic “Fargo” and the…
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Disney’s “Wish” is the most aggressive piece of Disney propaganda in years. Sure, they all are to a certain extent,…
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Roger Ebert famously received more emails in response to any review he had written—more than “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “The Passion…
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When D. Smith’s “Kokomo City” premiered at Sundance this year, Nick Allen wrote, “The women interviewed here—Liyah Mitchell, Dominque Silver, Koko…
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Can you call a film formulaic if it’s based on things that really happened? Maybe. As with any movie, it’s…
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Is Tyler Perry running for office? Despite a few moments that allow critical or at least skeptical views of the actor/writer/director/studio…
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If Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz’s “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story,” the origin documentary about the rise of the…
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Movies about giant monsters have a legacy of being talkier than expected, and I’m usually willing to go along with them…
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