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Richard Roeper, a Sun-Times contributor since 1987 and a Chicago native, is the author of seven books and the former co-host of “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies.” He is the film critic for ABC-7 ...
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Richard Roeper: The best movies of 2021. No. 1 for the year...
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Richard Roeper’s best movies of 2022. Some of the most...
- Richard Roeper: The best movies of 2021 - Chicago Sun-Times
Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) [1] is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel 's successor.
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- Belfast’ Writer/director Kenneth Branagh’s black-and-white love letter to his childhood in the Northern Ireland of the late 1960s is a story of the Troubles between the Protestants and the Catholics and how they impact three generations of a working-class family that knows no other existence outside of their tightly knit neighborhood in Belfast — but has to face the reality of the world closing in all around them.
- Licorice Pizza’ The great Paul Thomas Anderson delivers one of his most sentimental and sweetest stories with this early 1970s period piece featuring amazingly accomplished performances from two newcomers to the big screen: musician Alana Haim as Alana Kane, a 25-year-old woman yearning to escape the mundane trappings of her life in the San Fernando Valley, and Cooper Hoffman (son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) as the fantastically named Gary Valentine, a teenage schemer and dreamer who becomes Alana’s unlikely partner in a number of get-sorta-rich-sorta-quick schemes, her best friend and maybe more.
- West Side Story’ A Star is Born in Rachel Zegler, who makes for a luminous, warmhearted, strong and memorable Maria in Steven Spielberg’s sensational update of one of the great movie (and Broadway) musicals of all time.
- Pig’ It’s just too easy to joke about all the B-movie roles Nicolas Cage has accepted over these last many years, and on its surface, “Pig” might have seemed like the latest in that very long line.
- ‘The Fabelmans’
- ‘The Black Phone’
- ‘Tár’
- ‘Emily The Criminal’
- ‘Pearl’ and ‘X’
- ‘To Leslie’
- ‘Nope’
- ‘Aftersun’
- ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
- ‘The Whale’
The master himself, Steven Spielberg, has talked often about how his love of movies was solidified by the sometimes bumpy road of his adolescence, and he channeled those experiences to great effect in his most personal film ever. With Gabriel LaBelle as the Spielbergian doppelganger Sammy Fabelman (what a last name!), who dreams of becoming a filmm...
I love that Scott Derrickson’s stylish, bare-bones horror work is set in 1978 — the same year one Michael Myers went on a killing spree in Haddonfield, Illinois, and just a couple of years before Jason Voorhees went on a rampage at Camp Crystal Lake. Based on a short story by Joe Hill (look up a photo of Joe and you’ll instantly recognize he’s the ...
Cate Blanchett soars and is sure to get an Oscar nomination (and most likely a win) as the title character, one Lydia Tár, an enormously talented and deeply troubled composer/conductor who at times is more intimidating than The Grabber as she psychologically slices and dices anyone who gets in the way of her voracious appetite for attaining iconic ...
What a year for Aubrey Plaza, from her show-stopping work in Season Two of “The White Lotus” to a small but wildly entertaining part in “Spin Me Round” to her career-best performance in John Patton Ford’s edgy and tightly spun neo-thriller, which is set in present day but has a 1970s indie-movie vibe. Plaza’s debt-riddled Emily makes the fateful de...
Writer-director-producer Ti West created an instantly iconic franchise with the release of “X,” an homage to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” set in the late 1970s, and the prequel, “Pearl,” which takes place some 50 years earlier and tells the origin story of the title character (Mia Goth, who plays Pearl in both movies and also plays lead character ...
As much as I admired Blanchett’s work in “Tár,” my favorite performance by a woman this year was delivered by the chameleonlike Andrea Riseborough in director Michael Morris’ searing drama about a mom at the final crossroads in her life after she’s lost everything due to her drinking. With an insightful script by Ryan Binaco and fine supporting wor...
Jordan Peele does it again in a bold and funny and outlandish sci-fi horror fable that pays homage to such films as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Signs” and “Poltergeist,” and yet maintains an original voice throughout. Daniel Kaluuya continues his run of great work as OJ Haywood, who runs the only Black-owned horse ranch i...
No doubt the catering budget on “The Way of Water” was bigger than the entire cost of this small and seemingly uncomplicated diamond from the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells. Set in the summer of 1999, “Aftersun” chronicles a pivotal summer vacation in the life of 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) and her father Calumn (Paul Mescal), who ...
You’re feckin’ right this is one of the best movies in recent memory, with the great tandem of Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell reuniting with their “In Bruges” writer-director Martin McDonagh for another pitch-black comedy-drama about two unlikely friends who just might be the end of each other. Set on a fictional island off the west coast of Ire...
Darren Aronofsky’s grand and eloquent metaphor is the kind of polarizing and ambitious cinematic gesture that will land on some “Best of” lists — and some “Worst of” lists as well. Based on the moving and wholly original stage play by Samuel D. Hunter, “The Whale” stars Brendan Fraser in a career-best performance as a 600-pound recluse who sees the...
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May 3, 2023 · Richard Roeper is a highly respected film critic. He began his career in 1986 writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, covering a variety of topics, including movies. When Gene Siskel of Siskel &...
Richard Roeper was born on 17 October 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Something to Live For, Siskel & Ebert (1986) and Entourage (2004).
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