Richard Roeper
Movie Reviews

From Chicago to the World: On the 50th Anniversary of Siskel & Ebert | Roger Ebert

Before I was a friend and colleague, I was a fan. In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a loner

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The Real Monsters: How True Crime Has Shaped the Horror TV Genre | Features

“If the devil’s alive, he lived here.” — Quote in the Chicago Tribune, attributed to a worker who was involved in the demolition

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What Really Matters is What You Like: “High Fidelity” at 25 | Features

When we look back at John Cusack’s expressive and bruised-heart romantic Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity” a quarter-century after the film’s release, there’s

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Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose: The Enduring Legacy of “Friday Night Lights” | Features

“It was in Odessa that I found those Friday night lights, and they burned with more intensity than I ever imagined… As someone

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Netflix Unpacks One of Chicago’s Most Infamous Unsolved Mysteries in “Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders” | TV/Streaming

“For relief you can trust, trust Tylenol. Hospitals do.” — From a 1981 TV commercial for Tylenol. In the second episode of the

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