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Richard Roeper

Entertainment columnist

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’s “Windy City Live.”

Unbearable 14th century Italians flee deadly disease in Netflix series that’s not as edgy as it thinks it is.
Lisa Kudrow leads the bumbling marauders in Apple’s funny follow-up to 1981 film.
Ryan Reynolds’ wisecracking antihero teams with Hugh Jackman’s surly mutant for a bloody, bombastic buddy-cop adventure that freely breaks the fourth wall.
Prickly as always, the polarizing former Reds star looks back at his career over four episodes of the HBO docuseries.
Three-part doc has all the dirt on music mogul’s rise and fall — and one distracting gimmick.
Natalie Portman’s creative, provocative mystery show on Apple TV+ is too intense to binge.
It’s no wonder the star of two classic TV comedies is immortalized in bronze on Navy Pier.
Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones play unlikely duo of experts in the disaster movie set in the universe of 1996’s ‘Twister.’
Olympian opens up about her sadness after the 2020 Games and her marriage to the Bears’ Jonathan Owens.