Each night, in a small Nepalese village nestled in a deep forest, the community carries torches between the trees to ward off wild elephants that would otherwise rampage through farmers’ crops. At once a time-honored ritual and a practical responsibility, this custom embodies the complex, often painful collisions between past and present that constitute everyday

“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 Palme for Mungiu, who took the prize in 2007 for “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days.” The jury president, Park Chan-wook, said he had

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 video form. In this video dispatch, Scott Dummler interviews correspondent Marya E. Gates about her three favorite films from the festival, and we get a Cannes

The easy shorthand for how to describe Netflix’s “The Boroughs” is that it’s like “Stranger Things” with walkers instead of bicycles, and that’s not just because of the foundational similarities in its plotting. The score, the credits font, and even the creature design all share a bit of that Duffer Brothers flavor, which makes sense

Boots Riley is one of the few American filmmakers who are most visibly invested in conversations about class, capitalism, and aesthetics in their works. He pushes each subject to the point of breaking in absurdist works whose visual ambition and thematic audacity can often feel as knowingly chaotic as our contemporary world. With “Sorry to

The Director’s Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival has become a target of debate in recent years, sometimes viewed as “the films that didn’t get into the main Cannes program.” While it may be true for a few films, there’s a lot of quality in DF, not only exemplified by the excellent clip reel

The last we saw of Kelly Reilly’s Beth and Cole Hauser’s Rip in the series finale of “Yellowstone,” they had just settled into their new home, a ranch in the quiet outpost of Dillon, Montana. For one perfect, sun-dappled moment, it appeared as if Beth and Rip and their teenage ward Carter (Finn Little) might

Put plainly, it’s a wonder that the “Good Omens” finale even exists. In the wake of a series of sexual misconduct and assault allegations against creator Neil Gaiman, production on the series’s third season was paused indefinitely. Although Gaiman has repeatedly denied the claims, it certainly felt like the Prime Video comedy about the unorthodox

The new Peacock series “M.I.A” could be called “Miami Vice: The Reversal.” This nine-episode revenge saga is equal parts crime drama and nighttime soap about the clash between two families and the ruin that follows. However, it hinges on the duo of Etta Tiger Jonze (Shannon Gisela) and Lovely (Brittany Adebumola), and on the seemingly

There’s something the matter with Dix Steele—the protagonist in Dorothy B. Hughes’ 1947 novel In a Lonely Place and in its 1950 adaptation of the same name directed by Nicholas Ray—and the women around him sense it.   You could call it feminine intuition. The detective in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” does so when Grace Kelly’s