Chaz Ebert

In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.

Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto the national television stage. He was hip. He was smart. He was innovative, political, and gay. In his personal fight for social equality, this man ensured the Revolution would be televised. The man was Ellis Haizlip. The Revolution was soul!

The Last Movie Critic is a documentary portrait of Roger Ebert, not just the critic, but the idea he became. Through the voices of the filmmakers he championed and the words he left behind, the film explores how one man’s deep and abiding love for cinema became a gift to everyone who ever sat in the dark and felt something. A celebration of movies, of empathy, and of the belief that what we watch together can make us more human.