It’s been a little while, but Nicolas and I are back with another Marvel Mondays episode of Breakfast All Day. This time we take on “Eternals,” and we have mixed feelings about it. Nic and I discuss how uniquely beautiful director and co-writer Chloe Zhao‘s film is and how exciting...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/5/21
The days are getting shorter, but we’re here to be a bright spot for you on Breakfast All Day. This week, the brilliant Katie Walsh returns to help me review “Spencer,” featuring what is perhaps Kristen Stewart’s best work yet. Then Alonso and I talk about the stylish revisionist Western...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Violet
To the outside world, Violet would seem to have it all. But inside her head, she tells herself a different story—or rather, “The Committee” does. That gaping disparity provides the central conflict within writer/director Justine Bateman’s feature filmmaking debut, “Violet.” Olivia Munn shows dramatic range unlike any we’ve seen before, but...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Eternals
Director Chloe Zhao applies her distinctive aesthetic imprint to “Eternals,” but she can only do so much to bend the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her will. The result is a blockbuster of unusual gentle beauty that also strains to fulfill the gargantuan requirements of a massive action spectacle. My mixed...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/29/21
Put on your go-go boots and join us for a retro-chic episode of Breakfast All Day. The brilliant Amy Nicholson helps me review Edgar Wright’s super-stylish thriller “Last Night in Soho.” Alonso and I also take a trip back in time — to 1984, for a discussion of David Lynch’s...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Hypnotic
“Hypnotic” is a thriller about the dangerous power of hypnotherapy, but is it powerful enough to stick in your brain even a week after you’ve watched it? What’s actually going on here is so simple, yet so insane, that you wish the filmmakers had explored it for maximum screaming-at-the-screen enjoyment....
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/22/21
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....
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Ron’s Gone Wrong
“Ron’s Gone Wrong” is an indictment of the invasive, insidious tactics of Big Tech, and of the ways we relinquish a little more of our privacy with every click and view. It’s also a celebration of the positive power of technology, of its ability to connect us with others who share...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/15/21
We’ll take up our swords and fight for your honor this week on Breakfast All Day. My great friend Katie Walsh of Tribune News Service returns to help me review Ridley Scott’s medieval “Rashomon” tale “The Last Duel.” Then, it’s just me and Alonso for reviews of the sequel “Halloween...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Introducing, Selma Blair
Selma Blair needs no introduction. And yet we get to meet the actress anew—and she comes to know and eventually embrace a different version of herself—over the course of the documentary “Introducing, Selma Blair.” Working with director Rachel Fleit, she gives us an intimate, unflinching look at her life as...
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