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Ebert compiled "best of the decade" movie lists in the 2000s for the 1970s to the 2000s, thereby helping provide an overview of his critical preferences. Only three films for this listing were named by Ebert as the best film of the year, Five Easy Pieces (1970), Hoop Dreams (1994), and Synecdoche, New York (2008). Five Easy Pieces (1970s) [129]
Roger Ebert compiled "best of the year" movie lists beginning in 1967 until 2012. Since Ebert died, the practice has continued since 2014 with his website. The primary contributors do a Borda count where each critic ranks films, with ten points for the first-placed film to one point for the tenth-placed film. The scores are compiled and best ...
Roger Ebert; Gene Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) ... As critics, Siskel's first top ten list was in 1969; Ebert's had debuted in 1967. Over the life ...
Roger Ebert named My Winnipeg the tenth best film of the decade. [16] The film appeared on several other critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. [17] 3rd – Richard Corliss, Time [17] 4th – Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle [17] 5th – Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail [17] 6th – Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle [17]
Personal Best garnered a 74% approval rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews. [9] Roger Ebert gave the film four out of a possible four stars and wrote, "This is a very physical movie, one of the healthiest and sweatiest celebrations of physical exertion I can remember...
In 1991, film critic Roger Ebert named it one of the ten best films ever made in his list for the Sight & Sound poll. [6] Ebert's television partner Gene Siskel shared his enthusiasm for the film. [7] Ebert wrote that the film is an "underground legend," and in 1997 put it in his list of The Great Movies.
Roger Ebert included the film on his "10 Best List" for the year. [15] Janet Maslin wrote that Body Heat was "skillfully, though slavishly, derived" from 1940s film noir classics; she stated that, "Mr. Hurt does a wonderful job of bringing Ned to life," but was not impressed by Turner's performance:
The film was very well received critically and is listed on the Top Ten lists of both Gene Siskel [10] and Roger Ebert, [11] for films released in 1989. On Rotten Tomatoes , it has a 97% approval rating based on 29 reviews, with an average score of 8/10 and a consensus: " Drugstore Cowboy takes us into a violent, transient world with cool ...