Roger Ebert Movie Review

Weekend Box Office: April 25-27, 2008

Baby Mama tops the box office with $17.4 million

Daily Box Office: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Baby Mama tops Wednesday's box office with $1.1 million

By Roger Ebert Errol Morris' "Standard Operating Procedure," based on the infamous prison torture photographs from Abu Ghraib, is completely unlike anything I was expecting from such a film -- more disturbing, analytical and morose. This is not a "political" film nor yet another screed about the Bush administration or the war in Iraq. It is driven simply, powerfully, by the desire to understand those photographs.

Last Year at Marienbad / **** (No rating)

By Roger Ebert Note: The Music Box will screen a new print of "Last Year at Marienbad" in a weeklong run beginning today. This Great Movie review was originally published May 30, 1999. How clearly I recall standing in the rain outside the Co-Ed Theater near the campus of the University of Illinois, waiting to see "Last Year at Marienbad." On those lonely sidewalks, in that endless night, how long did we wait there? And was it the first time we waited in that line, to enter the old theater with its columns, its aisles, its rows of seats -- or did we see the same film here last year?

Deception / * (R)

By Jim Emerson, editor What can compare with the white-knuckle suspense of uploading a file? "Deception," that's what. This is a movie jam-packed with all the thrills of watching that little progress bar grow and grow until it fills the alloted space in the pop-up box on your computer screen.

Chapter 27 / 1/2 (R)

By Jim Emerson, editor A movie like the dismal "Chapter 27" just makes you feel bad for, and about, everybody -- including the wretched souls who made the thing. It's bad enough that the creep who killed John Lennon didn't know what he was thinking when he did it. What about the people who made this movie about him?