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The fact that Treat Williams was not one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars has to rank as one of its most egregious failures. Here was a guy who had all the qualifications one might look for in such a person—the looks, the charisma, and the sheer, unquestionable talent—and while he worked steadily until his tragic death…

On October 12, 2000, a Texan named Mary Morris was murdered. On October 16, 2000, a Texan named Mary Morris was murdered. The dual assassination—both clearly the work of a hitman—became legendary in the true crime community. Was the first death the act of a bumbling assassin, a hired gun who got the wrong Mary…

Like many Gen-Xers, I think my first exposure to Godzilla movies was on local broadcast channels filling their weekend matinee slots with old Westerns and Showa-era kaiju flicks. I know I had seen most of them as a kid before revisiting them the last few years as Criterion restored 15 of them (from 1954-1975) to…

It might seem obvious to bundle two Tribeca premieres with the word “Dust” into one dispatch, but these films have more in common than just a title. They’re both about desperate people trying to outrun their past and avoid a violent future. One is more effective than the other, but I could see both finding…

Matt writes: As one last addition to our in-depth coverage of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the entirety of which can be found in this table of contents, RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert presents her tenth and final video dispatch embedded below. It contains her interviews with acclaimed actor Jeffrey Wright (at Cannes with Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City”);…