Review By: Roger Ebert” The Shawshank Redemption” is a movie about time, patience and loyalty — not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends […]
Review By: Roger Ebert” The Shawshank Redemption” is a movie about time, patience and loyalty — not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends […]
Review By: Roger Ebert Words on a black screen: “To the glory of God.” I was reminded of Catholic grade school, where every page of homework began at the top with our childish handwriting: “JMJ”–for Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Was I dedicating my arithmetic to […]
Review By: Roger Ebert “This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.” — Robert to Francesca Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County” is not about love and not about sex, but about an idea. The film opens with the information that two […]
Review By: Roger Ebert If the long struggle between the British and the Irish had been carried out only on movie screens, the Irish would long since have been the victors. The Irish film industry, one of the most creative and interesting in Europe, has […]
Review By: Roger Ebert Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, even when they want to tell the truth. As an Army lieutenant colonel reconstructs a battle scene in “Courage Under Fire,” he begins to suspect that some of his witnesses are lying. His assignment: decide on the […]
Review By: Roger Ebert If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can carry only one film on board, that film might be “Baraka.” It uses no language, so needs no translation. It speaks in magnificent images, natural sounds, and music both […]
