Challengers movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
What a situation! The instability of it keeps “Challengers” on its toes even when it’s on the verge of getting tripped up by plot machinations and the past/present storytelling churn of Justin Kuritzkes’ screenplay and Marco Costa’s editing. There’s a lively cinematic subgenre that deconstructs the rise and fall of a relationship by jumping around in time—two excellent examples ...
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Flow movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Nov 22, 2024 · As water rises, flooding everything in its path, the cat finds itself standing on an island of its own, quite literally. A giant statue of a cat—a monument to feline companions—is almost completely submerged, forcing the hero to survive by …
Lee movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert
Sep 27, 2024 · When the war begins, Miller gets a photography job with British Vogue, which has been directed “to encourage the women of Britain to do their duty” by bringing the urgency of what’s happening into the pages of a fashion magazine.At first, she takes pictures of the Blitz, “bombs, chaos, but everyone carried on, and I did what I could to capture it.”
Moana 2 movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert
Nov 26, 2024 · They would probably get less restless if “Moana 2” had more adventure in general. While the film carries some notable, resonant cultural material, there’s little actual adventure in what should be a story that amplifies Moana’s burgeoning heroism.
Emilia Pérez movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Nov 1, 2024 · Then there’s the question of language in “Emilia Pérez,” where none of its three main actors speak with a Mexican accent. Though Audiard himself doesn’t speak Spanish, I must admit my surprise at the use of colloquial language thanks to whoever translated the text; that’s more than most American productions set anywhere in Latin …
Blitz movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert
Oct 11, 2024 · Certainly, other movies have taken on the Blitz, like “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,” “Hope and Glory,” “Atonement,” and “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and Wardrobe,” which begins with a group of siblings heading to the countryside for their safety.
It Ends With Us movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert
Aug 7, 2024 · After the emotional turmoil of her estranged father’s funeral in Maine, our heroine, the impeccably fashionable Lily Bloom (Blake Lively, the best clotheshorse movie star since Kay Francis), breaks into a rooftop to peer at the vast beauty of Boston’s skyline.Before she can do much introspection, she meets the impossibly handsome and impossibly named Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni, also the ...
Woman of the Hour movie review (2024) - Roger Ebert
Oct 18, 2024 · “You’re beautiful,” Alcala says to all of his victims, mostly women on the margins of society. He is a photographer. He knows the power of his gaze, of his camera. Kendrick begins her film with a victim who was murdered in 1977.
White Bird movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Oct 4, 2024 · Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), the movie is also also a sequel of sorts—perhaps it’s more accurate to call it a “universe expander”—to 2017 “Wonder,” Stephan Chbosky’s film of a Palacio novel about a smart, kindhearted, wise boy named August “Auggie” Pullman who was born with a facial deformity, mandibulofacial …