Brian Tallerico

1 week ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

Some readers may be old enough to remember when every network was actively trying to find "The Next Friends," hiring often random collections of unknown young performers and throwing them into comic hijinks together. The result was a wave of awful television with a few standouts (long live "Happy Endings") and a form that quickly burned out.

1 week ago | vulture.com | Brian Tallerico

Welcome to The Last of Us, Abby’s Version. Spoilers ahead for “Convergence,” the season-two finale of HBO’s The Last of Us, as well as the video game it adapts. The Last of Us finished its emotionally devastating and divisive second season without the closure of the HBO adaptation’s acclaimed first outing, cutting off abruptly at roughly the halfway point of the video game sequel on which it’s based.

1 week ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

The Cannes Film Festival unfolds in such a manner that there are often screening windows in which it's impossible not to see something already assigned to another writer. With five people covering the fest, including the division of the Competition program among three writers (myself, Ben Kenigsberg, and Robert Daniels), it leads to seeing some important films that someone else is covering.

2 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

One of my favorite programs in my first year of Cannes was Un Certain Regard, a wildly unpredictable, diverse, and accomplished collection of films that exists just outside the Competition program.

2 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

Much has been made of the length of standing ovations after Cannes screenings, but the most memorable one this year was before the film even began. Jafar Panahi came to Cannes and shook the entire festival, not only by presenting one of his best films, but by attending the world premiere in person, something one would have thought impossible not long ago, and his first time physically at Cannes since 2003.