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Now That Rod Steiger Has His Oscar - Roger Ebert That’s the funny thing about Steiger. Although he has been in a great many successful movies, from “ On the Waterfront ” and “The Pawnbroker” to the just-released “No Way to Treat a Lady, the public still has trouble recognizing him. Is it because he sinks so completely into each role that he stops looking like Rod Steiger? Steiger ...

Short Films in Focus: The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Shorts “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” – Charles Dickens meets Roald Dahl in this fable about a girl who, yes, cries pearls, a greedy pawnbroker who sees their monetary value, and a homeless boy who brings him the pearls in exchange for money.

Why my video essay about “All that Jazz” is not on the Criterion blu-ray The Pawnbroker. Edited by Ralph Rosenblum, who would later go on to edit a lot of Woody Allen ’s early, structurally playful films, it’s strongly influenced by the French New Wave. And both director Sidney Lumet and Rosenblum said that they raided Hiroshima pretty shamelessly. As you can see here.

Set Me Free movie review & film summary - Roger Ebert Her father is cold to her mother, her brother and herself, but then turns on the charm. There is no money in the household; her father (Miki Manojlovic) calls himself a writer but has published nothing, her mother (Pascale Bussieres) works as a seamstress, and the pawnbroker knows the kids by name.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair movie review - Roger Ebert “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” is not just the longest Tarantino movie but arguably the most Tarantino movie.

Time and Water movie review & film summary - Roger Ebert Focusing on Iceland’s glaciers and the monumental consequence of their loss, this work makes space for both lament and celebration. It’s a homily, presented with the potency and style of performance poetry.

A Long Way Down movie review & film summary - Roger Ebert Martin Sharp (Pierce Brosnan) wants to kill himself on New Year’s Eve. He has tumbled from the height of popularity after a sex scandal with an underage girl destroyed his family and sees no reason to go on if he’s not famous.

Inside Llewyn Davis movie review - Roger Ebert We cannot imagine Llewyn Davis happy. The self-defeating Sisyphus of the new film written, directed, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen is the first person the viewer lays eyes on in the movie.

84 Charing Cross Road movie review - Roger Ebert Bancroft sends care packages of ham to postwar England. Hopkins sends precious editions of Boswell, Chesterton and Cardinal Newman (“Dear John Henry,” Bancroft calls him). Bancroft leads a lonely life in a New York apartment. Hopkins occupies a silent marriage in a London bedroom suburb.

Liam movie review & film summary - Roger Ebert Set among the Irish working people of Liverpool in the 1930s, Stephen Frears’ “Liam” shows us a family where the children are terrified of sin and their parents of poverty.