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Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈ iː b ər t / EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author.He was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.
RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the Chicago Sun-Times, was launched in 2002. [1] Ebert handpicked writers from around the world to contribute to the website.
Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and Leonard Maltin gave the film four-star reviews and called it the best film of 1975. In his original review, Ebert wrote "after I saw it I felt more alive, I felt I understood more about people, I felt somehow wiser. It's that good a movie." [74] On August 6, 2000, Ebert included it in his The Great Movies ...
Roger Ebert awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars. His review read, "'Lone Star' is a great American movie, one of the few to seriously try to regard with open eyes the way we live now. His review read, "'Lone Star' is a great American movie, one of the few to seriously try to regard with open eyes the way we live now.
This character is, in fact, rather famously what irked Roger Ebert enough to give the picture a negative review (he praised the two immediate sequels). It's definitely the weakest element of an ...
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 72% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. [9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [10] Roger Ebert gave the film a four-star review. In praise of Gazzara ...
Italian actress Lea Massari received positive reviews for her performance. Roger Ebert gave the film a four-star review, comparing it favorably to The 400 Blows, and wrote of the incest that Malle "takes the most highly charged subject matter you can imagine, and mutes it into simple affection."
One of the most infamous reviews for David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” to publish when the film opened in 1986 came courtesy of Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one star. Then the most prominent ...