Richard Roeper
Movie Reviews

Hulu’s “Sunny Nights” Offers Split Sides, Spray Tans, and Botched Schemes

Over the last few years, the adult sibling dynamic has been explored to great effect in a number of sharply funny and/or dramatically

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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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