It’s Timothee Chalamet Week on Breakfast All Day. He’s at the center of two giant movies with ridiculously packed casts of superstars and character actors alike. First, Alonso and I review Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” — or at least, part one of “Dune” — which we watched under extremely different conditions....
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RogerEbert.com — Monster
A tremendous cast can only do so much with paper-thin characters and a frustrating narrative structure in “Monster.” The long-delayed drama stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as a young man with a bright future who’s wrongly charged with murder after a Harlem bodega killing. It’s unfortunately all-too relevant but it’s also...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/1/20
The band is back together! It’s been a year since we’ve all been in the same place at the same time so we are thrilled to have Ben with us this week, if briefly and remotely, on the latest Breakfast All Day. He joins us for our weekly Coronavirus update...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/12/19
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that we got. We’re still Breakfast All Day from the block. And we were dazzled by Jennifer Lopez’s electrifying performance in the true crime drama “Hustlers,” although Alonso and I had differing levels of enthusiasm for the movie as a whole. We also review “The Goldfinch,” the...
Read moreRevisiting Syriana
People often ask me if, after all these years of covering entertainment, there’s a celebrity I was especially nervous to interview. It wasn’t a superstar like Chris Evans or Penelope Cruz. It wasn’t an influential filmmaker like Clint Eastwood or Noah Baumbach. (Although I will say that Tommy Lee Jones...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
It’s the final film in the “Hunger Games” saga — no, really it is this time! With the exception of a couple of truly dazzling action set pieces, “Mockingjay – Part 2” provides more of what we saw in “Mockingjay — Part 1”: a lot of wheel-spinning and repetitive imagery....
Read moreThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
Lionsgate Films Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images and thematic material. Running time: 123 minutes. Two stars out of four. Despite its action and revelations, its substantial political allegory and its strong performances from a tremendous cast, “The Hunger Games: Mockingkay — Part 1”...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — A Single Shot
The backwoods neo-noir “A Single Shot” is an odd mix of beautifully bleak atmosphere and hammily mannered performances, which makes it simultaneously understated and overpowering. But it’s always good to see Sam Rockwell. My review for RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
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