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Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) [1] is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor. [2] [3] From 2010 to 2014, he co-hosted The Roe and Roeper Show with Roe Conn on WLS-AM. [4]
Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) Margaret Pomeranz (At the Movies) Dilys Powell (The Sunday Times) Vasiraju Prakasam (Vaartha) Nathan Rabin (The A.V. Club) Rex Reed (New York Observer) B. Ruby Rich (Film Quarterly) Frank Rich (Time, New York) Carrie Rickey (Philadelphia Inquirer) Shirrel Rhoades; Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times, At the ...
He attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter for a year. After movie critic Eleanor Keane left the Sun-Times in April 1967, editor Robert Zonka gave the job to Ebert. [29] The paper wanted a young critic to cover movies like The Graduate and films by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. [5]
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.
Siskel started writing for the Chicago Tribune in 1969, becoming its film critic soon after. Ebert joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1966, and started writing about film for the paper in 1967. [5] In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. [6]
The Sun-Times resulted from the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times newspapers. [ a ] Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer Prizes , mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was the first film critic to receive the prize, Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013.
This includes a three-and-a-half (out of four) star review by the Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper who called it "exhilaratingly entertaining", [15] a Newcity Chicago review that compared it to the work of Éric Rohmer and Arnaud Desplechin, [16] and a review in Film Threat that cited Nina Ganet as giving the film's standout performance. [17]
Like a good script, maybe. Instead, the movie lays out a slew of half-baked ideas and never turns on the burner." [3] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times quipped in an otherwise positive 3-star review, "What does Sidney Lumet's 'Family Business' want to be? A caper movie, or a family drama?