Roger Ebert Articles

Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part IV – Ingrid Bergman The ending is good — Louie and Rick talk of leaving Casablanca after Louie covers for Rick’s killing the Nazi Major Strasser — but there is nothing either actor does that lifts the scene above its own well-written basis. Then there is Strasser’s portrayer, Conrad Veidt, an actor [...]

STRAW DOGS Review: Part III In his defense, Clover is not the only critic who has butchered their interpretation of the film. The infamous Pauline Kael loved Straw Dogs, but mislabeled it "fascist," as if a band of local loonies are the equivalent of a nationwide junta, while many of her female acolytes condemned both the film and the director for "misogyny." Even the powerful [...]

If movies and movie franchises can have reboots, why not television shows devoted to movies and movie franchises? Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, a reboot of the film-review show At the Movies in which Ebert and Gene Siskel gave thumbs up or down to countless releases, will be produced by his wife Chaz Ebert at the original series’ station, WTTW Chicago. The new show [...]

Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in David Slade’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Tent Sequence in Stephenie Meyer’s novel Eclipse is many twihards’ favorite. It’s also quite possibly the most discussed scene found in the movie version, partly because it had to be reshot in order to solve some "blocking" issues. Although overall I found Eclipse a marked improvement over New Moon, I also [...]