Cannes 2026 Video #9: Critics Roundtable
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and…
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Cannes 2026: “Fjord” wins Palme d’Or
“Fjord,” Cristian Mungiu’s drama about a Romanian family that is targeted by child services in Norway, won the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. It was a second…
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Cannes 2026 Video #10: Reflecting on the Awards
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and…
Read moreCannes 2026: Full Phil, Sanguine (Species), Jim Queen
I’ll cut right to the chase: the Midnighters are usually my most anticipated sidebar of any given festival (from last year’s Cannes alone, they treated us to “Exit 8” and…
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Cannes 2026: La Gradiva, Dora, Gabin
As excited as I was for the Cannes films in the Main Competition, I always look forward to the sidebar sections with just as much, if not more, anticipation. “The…
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Going the Distance: Seeing “Rocky” in Concert
On a recent summery Saturday evening in Chicago, moviegoers had the opportunity to take in any number of current releases, from “Michael” to “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” from “Obsession”…
Read moreThrowback “Mina the Hollower” is One of the Best Games of 2026
With the enormous platformer “Shovel Knight,” developer Yacht Club Games cemented itself as a legendary indie studio. Its second game, “Mina the Hollower,” is finally here after years of “Shovel…
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Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” Takes Bold New Leaps in Space and Scope in Its Fifth Season
It’s wild to think, going into the fifth season of Apple TV’s lush, sorely underrated science fiction series “For All Mankind,” that Ronald D. Moore‘s alt-history saga began with a…
Read moreNetflix’s “Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole” Feels A Bit Overstuffed
If the Netflix Norwegian crime thriller series “Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole” had been packaged into five or even six episodes, it might well have been masterful. Stretched over nine long…
Read moreShuffling and Whittling and Experimenting: Austin Keeling and Lam T. Nguyen on Editing the Told-on-Screens Film “Mercy”
In “Mercy,” Chris Pratt plays a police detective accused of murdering his wife. It takes place in the future, when the judicial system is turned over to an AI “judge”…
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