Author: Roger Ebert
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REVIEW: Funeral director Jack Black, unlikeable widow MacLaine shine in ‘Bernie’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I would buy a used coffin from this man. In Richard Linklater’s droll comedy “Bernie,” Jack Black plays an East Texas funeral director named Bernie Tiede, and it is surely one of the best performances…
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REVIEW: Funeral director Jack Black, unlikeable widow MacLaine shine in ‘Bernie’
I would buy a used coffin from this man. In Richard Linklater’s droll comedy “Bernie,” Jack Black plays an East Texas funeral director named Bernie Tiede, and it is surely one of the best performances of the year. I had to forget what I knew about Black. He creates this character out of thin air,…
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REVIEW: Little-known Mexican war gets pro-Catholic slant in ‘Glory’
In the years 1926 through 1929, Mexico fought a war over the freedom of Roman Catholics to worship. After the Mexican Revolution, the constitution of 1917 stripped great power from the church, along with half of its enormous land holdings. But it was not until President Plutarco Elias Calles began to strictly enforce the constitution…
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REVIEW: ‘MIBII’ better than ‘Men’ of old
“Men in Black III” comes 15 years after the entertaining original and 10 years after the sequel laid an egg, and the surprise is it’s better than the first one. Given the passage of time, the entire concept may be new to some audience members, but it still does service: There is a secret agency…
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REVIEW: ‘Best’ an exotic delight
“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is a retirement destination in India for “the elderly and beautiful.” It has seen better days, and if you want to see what the better days looked like, just examine the brochure, which depicts a luxurious existence in Udaipur, a popular tourist destination in Rajasthan. To this city travel a…
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REVIEW: ‘MIBII’ better than ‘Men’ of old
“Men in Black III” comes 15 years after the entertaining original and 10 years after the sequel laid an egg, and the surprise is it’s better than the first one. Given the passage of time, the entire concept may be new to some audience members, but it still does service: There is a secret agency…
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REVIEW: ‘Best’ an exotic delight
“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is a retirement destination in India for “the elderly and beautiful.” It has seen better days, and if you want to see what the better days looked like, just examine the brochure, which depicts a luxurious existence in Udaipur, a popular tourist destination in Rajasthan. To this city travel a…
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REVIEW: Parents-to-be familiar with ‘Expecting’
“What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is a “Valentine’s Day” take on impending parenthood. Assorted couples cope with pregnancies, planned and unplanned, adoption and the epic change that is coming to their lives.It’s wafer-thin, but it has plenty of laughs — a lot of them involving pregnant women’s bodily functions, the rest coming from Chris…
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REVIEW: Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Dictator’ is crude, disgusting and darn funny
“The Dictator” is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on. Having seen Sacha Baron Cohen promoting it on countless talk shows, I feared the movie would feel like deja vu. But no. He establishes a claim to be the best comic filmmaker now working. And in a speech about…
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REVIEW: The Avengerthon should thrill Marvel fans
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do…