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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]
Its original hosts were Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, the former hosts of Sneak Previews on PBS (1975–1982) and a similarly titled syndicated series (1982–1986). [1] After Siskel died in 1999, [2] Ebert worked with various guest critics until choosing Chicago Sun-Times colleague Richard Roeper as his regular partner in 2000. [3]
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.
Film critic Roger Ebert added the film to his "Great Movies" list on December 16, 2009. [11] A. O. Scott, [12] Richard Roeper [13] and Roger Ebert all placed it on their respective lists for best films of the 2000 decade. [14] In a 2016 BBC poll of 177 critics from around the world, it was ranked as the 26th greatest film since 2000. [15] [16]
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.
Roger Ebert gave it a full four stars [9] and Richard Roeper named it the best film of the year. [10] It was also Richard Schickel's top film of 2007, and he called it "a morally alert, persuasively realistic and increasingly suspenseful melodrama, impeccably acted and handsomely staged by Tony Gilroy". [11]
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The show originally featured Roger Ebert, a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Gene Siskel, a film critic for the Chicago Tribune. The two newspapers were competitors, and so were Siskel and Ebert. As Ebert wrote after Siskel's death in 1999: We both thought of ourselves as full-service, one-stop film critics.