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.”

In this still shot from the movie "Civil War," Cailee Spaeny wears a bulletproof vest that says "press" and sits against a spray-painted wall as men in military fatigues carry guns and escort other people wearing black hoods.

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'Civil War': Powerful depiction of combat on U.S. soil shocks the senses

Searing saga stars Kirsten Dunst as one of the journalists witnessing explosions and executions in New York City, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

By Richard Roeper

Anytime Harriet (Lucy Boynton) hears a song she shared with her late boyfriend, she time-travels back to that moment in "The Greatest Hits."

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'The Greatest Hits': Music turns on the time travel in charming love story

Story of a woman torn between two lovers — one of them dead — lands in just the right place.

By Richard Roeper

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'The First Omen' intensely depicts madness that brought us baby Damien

Chilling prequel to the 1976 horror classic is blessed with a heroine, Nell Tiger Free, who’s greatness incarnate.

By Richard Roeper

"Monkey Man" director Dev Patel also stars as a driven young man called Kid who's determined to infiltrate the city’s inner circle.

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'Monkey Man' pulls no punches in elaborate, entertaining fight scenes

Dev Patel stars as a revenge-minded man scheming and jabbing his way through a chaotic, highly charged city in India.

By Richard Roeper

The title character of "Ripley" (Andrew Scott) sees a grifting opportunity when he's dispatched to Italy to retrieve a shipping magnate's son.

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Netflix 'Ripley' remake miscalculates on actors' ages

Series looks great, but casting men in their 40s as the callow expats hurts the story.

By Richard Roeper

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17th century social climbers canoodle their way to power in lush Starz series 'Mary & George'

Julianne Moore excels as a ruthlessly ambitious mom guiding her son into an affair with the promiscuous but paranoid king.

By Richard Roeper

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'Wicked Little Letters' a frothy showcase for Colman, Buckley as neighbors at war

The two brilliant actors lighten up in a period-piece comedy about poison-pen letters from a mysterious culprit.

By Richard Roeper

Giancarlo Esposito as Gray Bourgeois in Parish on AMC.

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Giancarlo Esposito the driving force in AMC's high-octane thriller 'Parish'

Over the course of just six fast-paced episodes, Esposito creates a memorable character in this crime drama based on the BBC One series “The Driver.”

By Richard Roeper

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'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' delivers same old monster song and dance

Despite the addition of some new characters (human and otherwise) the film comes across as a relatively uninspired and fairly forgettable chapter in the Monsterverse saga.

By Richard Roeper