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Roger Ebert

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    A Scarred Helen Mirren and the World's Worst OBGYN Exam

    Helen Mirren in something other than a bikini...​The Dinner: three cheese mac, dungeness crab cakes, pan roasted halibut, and a blood and sand at Bookstore Bar (92 Madison St.) The Movie: The Debt, at Regal Meridian 16 (1501 7th Ave) The Screenplate: Has a movie's best scene ever come while ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Madonna's Truth or Dare Is a Lot Less Shocking Than It Was 20 Years Ago

    ​Although I'm a lifelong Madonna fan, I'd never watched Truth or Dare. But late Wednesday night, it came on VH1 Classic, so I decided I'd watch it until I nodded off in a comfy gray chair in my living room. To my surprise, I made it to the closing credits, and thus had to search for a crappier ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2010

    Rocket Queen: Heroes & Villains

    Two chances to see tributes, and one shot at the real thing.

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Opening Today, But Not in Theaters

    By tacit agreement, the major studios tend not to open any big movies on the Oscar telecast weekend. (Here are the weekend offerings, actually quite good.) They don't want to compete with what is, essentially, a three-hour unpaid commercial for their wares, though ratings for the show have been dec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Blagojevich, I (Kind of) Wish We'd Known Ye

    Ex-governor Rod Blagojevich is perhaps the least smooth of them (Roger Ebert skewers the guy in today's Sun Times), but he comes from a long tradition of shady Illinois politicians ranging from the mild palm-greaser to the downright thieving. As a rule, I'm anti public-corruption; we voters put our ... More >>

  • News

    October 15, 2008

    The Way We Elect Judges Is a Sham

    It’s time we learned more about these be-robed candidates.

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2008

    Dirty Dancing

    It’s time we learned more about these be-robed candidates.

  • Film

    September 3, 2008

    Import/Export

    Whatever happened to Outsourced?

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Adieu, Ebert. Hello, Amazon?

    Whatever happened to Outsourced?

  • Calendar

    October 17, 2007

    Long Live the New Flesh

    A dialogue on a filmmaker's obsessions

  • Film

    August 29, 2007

    Quiz: Are You Among the Cult of Miranda July?

    Test your knowledge of our favorite renaissance woman and her work.

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2007

    Are Critics Necessary?

    Test your knowledge of our favorite renaissance woman and her work.

  • Film

    June 14, 2006

    One More Moose to Kill

    No interest in basketball? Bloody metaphors and tense courtroom proceedings add to the drama of this homegrown documentary.

  • Film

    May 17, 2006

    Local Heroes

    We meet some of the local figures and explore area connections at SIFF.

  • Film

    May 17, 2006

    Lucky Bounce

    How a neophyte Seattle director stumbled into making a surefire, lump-in-your-throat sports documentary. But would you give up seven years of your life for a deal with Miramax?

  • Film

    April 5, 2006

    Carroll Ballard

    The director of Wolf and Stallion wants to get your kids back to the wild.

  • Film

    March 15, 2006

    Seattle Weekly PickUnknown White Male

    Opens at Harvard Exit, Fri., March 17. Rated PG-13. 88 minutes.

  • Film

    March 1, 2006

    Seattle Weekly PickDuma

    Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., March 3– Thurs., March 16. Rated PG. 100 minutes.

  • Film

    March 1, 2006

    Tim and Brian Bitch About the Oscars

    Fewer and fewer people are willing to leave their home to see a movie. Should they even care about the Oscars on TV? Or what we critics think?

  • Film

    February 22, 2006

    Feb. 22-March 1, 2006

    This week's specialty screenings and venues.

  • Film

    February 15, 2006

    Feb. 15-22, 2006

    This week's specialty screenings and venues.

  • Film

    February 8, 2006

    Feb. 8-15, 2006

    This week's specialty screenings and venues.

  • Film

    February 1, 2006

    Feb. 1-8, 2006

    This week's specialty screenings and venues.

  • Film

    October 5, 2005

    Feathers and Fur

    Everybody loves penguins, but there's another animal star lurking at the box office—if you can see the elusive beast.

  • Film

    May 18, 2005

    Seattle Weekly's Picks

    Everybody loves penguins, but there's another animal star lurking at the box office—if you can see the elusive beast.

  • Film

    April 20, 2005

    SPFF's True Grit

    Life isn't so beautiful in Polish Film Fest headliners.

  • Arts

    March 30, 2005

    Putting It All in Perspective

    Life isn't so beautiful in Polish Film Fest headliners.

  • Film

    February 16, 2005

    Million Dollar Brouhaha

    Local critics horn in on this year's obligatory Oscar controversy. Spoiler alert: We're telling what happens to Hilary Swank.

  • Film

    January 12, 2005

    Dr. Strangelove

    Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $34.95

  • Arts

    December 1, 2004

    Phoenix

    Also: Susan Skilling and Lynne Woods Turner, Mickey One, Nancy Stark Smith, and Sean Astin.

  • Film

    October 6, 2004

    Dig!

    Local Sightings, Nicotina, Reconstruction, Rosenstrasse

  • Film

    July 28, 2004

    This Week's Attractions

    Local Sightings, Nicotina, Reconstruction, Rosenstrasse

  • Film

    June 30, 2004

    Independent's Day

    Docurama, $24.95

  • Diversions

    June 30, 2004

    The A-Word

    Docurama, $24.95

  • Film

    February 25, 2004

    Stone Reader

    New Yorker Video, $39.95

  • Film

    December 10, 2003

    SCARFACE

    Universal Home Entertainment, $26.98

  • Arts

    October 22, 2003

    Talent Required

    Two young, unknown Seattle writers pop up in the Eggers pantheon.

  • Film

    September 17, 2003

    Out of Grasp

    At the Telluride film fest, facts are slipping into thin air.

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    "What does it say about a paper when the only consistently good staffer people can point to is a cartoonist?"

  • Film

    April 16, 2003

    Better Luck Tomorrow and More

    Also: Bulletproof Monk, Chasing Papi, Holes, and Till Human Voices Wake Us

  • Music

    February 19, 2003

    The King is Dead

    Unknown Hinson fights for country music, bay-beh.

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    The Can't-Miss List

    No time to think: Get this season's fail-safe gifts.

  • Diversions

    December 4, 2002

    Lemon Pledge

    No time to think: Get this season's fail-safe gifts.

  • Film

    August 14, 2002

    Pulp Fiction/Jackie Brown

    No time to think: Get this season's fail-safe gifts.

  • Arts

    April 10, 2002

    Sunset Blvd.

    Hollywood insiders spill all.

  • Film

    October 3, 2001

    Citizen Kane

    Hollywood insiders spill all.

  • Film

    September 26, 2001

    Die Hard

    Hollywood insiders spill all.

  • Film

    October 25, 2000

    Time regained

    Five missing hours, five missing people.

  • Film

    July 28, 1999

    The first Third

    Seeing a restored Third Man is like seeing it for the first time.

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