It’s a great privilege of the gig, yet it’s always such an agonizing process. How do you choose the 10 best films of each year? And how do you rank them? I went with the ones that most moved me emotionally and wowed me technically, yet there are many more...
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What the Flick?! Podcast 10/25/18
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? They’re questions that apply to both of the big movies we review on the latest What the Flick?! Podcast: Luca Guadagnino’s thrillingly gonzo “Suspiria” remake and the frustratingly safe Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which Ben, Alonso and I discuss a week...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is a gloriously gonzo take on Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic — not a remake, exactly, but more of a serious (and seriously insane) expansion. The mood is deeply creepy from the get-go and Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton are exquisite. It doesn’t always work in its...
Read moreChristy by Request — Suspiria
You guys told me “Suspiria” was a deliriously strange movie, but you didn’t warn me about the blind pianist who gets his throat ripped out by his own seeing-eye dog. Long before that shocking, gruesome moment, though, we’re on edge from the very start in Italian horror master Dario Argento’s...
Read more10 Best Films of 2017
Narrowing down the best films of the year to just 10 is always a daunting process. There have been so many great movies this year, and I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot more of them than usual as a member of a couple different award committees and, of...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name” is the best film of 2017. This story of unexpected first love set in northern Italy during the summer of 1983 is lushly beautiful and achingly sad, with pitch-perfect performances from Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer. It left me a sobbing mess. Come...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — A Bigger Splash
“A Bigger Splash” is simultaneously sumptuous and startling — a true feast for the senses, featuring four superb performances from Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson and especially Ralph Fiennes. He absolutely tears up the screen as well as the film’s idyllic setting on an island off the coast of...
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