Roger Ebert

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June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois, The United States

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http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/

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Roger Joseph Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter.

He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, he auditioned several potential replacements, ultimately choosing Richard Roeper to fill the open chair. The program was retitled Ebert & Roeper and the Movies in 2000.

Ebert's movie reviews are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. He has written more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for...more

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Roger Ebert's Blog

Roger Ebert isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

Do critics hate comic-book movies?

(NOTE: If the blog looks a bit weird right now, it's a "known issue" and I hope somebody will be able to fix it quickly.)

I've been hearing from some disgruntled comic-book and superhero fans that they think critics have a prejudice against the genre. Or genres. I think there's a distinction to be made between comic-book, graphic novel and superhero movies (though, obviously, certain pictures...

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Books by Roger Ebert

Average rating: 3.91 · 3,199 ratings · 598 reviews · 45 distinct works

	Life Itself 3.74 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Your Movie Sucks 3.80 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Great Movies by Roger Ebert, Mary Corliss 4.24 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie 3.90 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Great Movies II 4.22 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert by Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (Foreword by) 4.09 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Scorsese by Roger Ebert, Martin Scorsese (Foreword) 3.73 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing from a Century of Film 4.13 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	The Great Movies III by Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Questions for the Movie Answer Man 3.51 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Roger Ebert

“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ”
― Roger Ebert

tags: computers , internet

36 people liked it

“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
― Roger Ebert

tags: film , movies

32 people liked it

“Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.”
― Roger Ebert

tags: love , sad-but-true , sadness

20 people liked it

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