“Nomadland” has had a terrific run throughout this weird awards season, and we expect it’ll win best picture and Chloe Zhao will win best director during Sunday night’s Academy Awards. Matt, Alonso and I make a bunch of other Oscar picks this week on Breakfast All Day, but we’re hoping...
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RogerEbert.com — Stowaway
“Stowaway” on Netflix is a spare survival story in space, featuring four characters on a doomed mission to Mars. It’s a clever take on a familiar genre with a terrific cast — Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Shamier Anderson — but the slow burn may be too...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 2/1/19
Super Bowl weekend means less-than-super options at the movies, but Alonso, Matt, Ben and I managed to eke out a victory of our own. Yes, you read that right, Ben is with us for the latest episode of Breakfast All Day. This week, we review the English-language remake of the...
Read more10 Best Films of 2018
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...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Fun Mom Dinner
I have been to many a Fun Mom Dinner in my life. I’m usually the ones who plans them, actually. So I am exactly the target audience for the raunchy, R-rated comedy “Fun Mom Dinner.” Unfortunately, it’s got moms and dinner but not much fun. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Tammy
Melissa McCarthy has enough clout in this town and in this industry, after standout performances in the massive box-office hits “Bridesmaids,” “The Heat” and “Identity Thief,” to make pretty much any movie she wants. She’s used it to make “Tammy,” a comedy she stars in, produced and co-wrote with her...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Lucky Them
Toni Collette is completely radiant as a smart and sexy but flawed Seattle music journalist in “Lucky Them.” She and Thomas Haden Church enjoy a great, kooky chemistry as a pair of mismatched friends on the hunt for a missing rock star. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
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