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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.
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.
It was regarded in many reviews as one of the best films of 1977, [4] [5] [6] including Gene Siskel, who placed it on his top 10 list for the year. Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of possible 4, praising the casting of Burns and Denver and noting that Oh God! struck the right tone by avoiding both pious religious platitudes and "cheap ...
In 2006, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times added it to his "Great Movies" collection, referring to it as "a film that rebukes the past when it might also have feared the future". [20] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating, based on 27 reviews with an average rating of 8.1/10. [21]
In a four-out-of-four star review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert, who later included the film in his list of "Great Movies", [30] wrote that Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader "paid Christ the compliment of taking him and his message seriously, and they have made a film that does not turn him into a garish, emasculated image from a ...
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times for nearly half a century, and a game-changing television presenter, died Thursday at the age of 70. Ebert had been in ill health for some time.
Chaz Ebert (born Charlie Hammel, October 15, 1952) is an American businesswoman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is best known as the wife and widow of film critic Roger Ebert , having been married to him from 1992 until his death in 2013.
Critics bowed to the king of Skull Island, but audiences graded it an F. The critic consensus: "Featuring state-of-the-art special effects, terrific performances, and a majestic sense of spectacle ...