Roger Ebert

Also known as Roger Joseph Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

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Roger Ebert was an influential American film critic and author who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times and became widely known for his television show "Siskel & Ebert," where he and fellow critic Gene Siskel discussed and rated films. He matters because he shaped how millions of Americans understood and appreciated cinema, and his accessible, thoughtful approach to film criticism helped establish the critic as an important cultural voice.

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Born: June 18, 1942
Died: April 4, 2013
Works: 75

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
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Roger Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter. Described by Forbes magazine as the "most powerful pundit in America", Ebert was the first film critic to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Ebert's began his criticizing career in 1967 as a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and later gained national recognition…

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Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders — Self (archive footage)2026
John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Film Critic (archive footage)2025
Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)2024
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis — Self2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault — (archive footage)2020
Kubrick by Kubrick — Self (archive footage)2020
Howard — Self (archive footage)2018
Burden — Self (archive footage)2016
Life Itself — Self - Film Critic2014
Don't You Forget About Me — Self2010

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1968-05-23

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Listeners: 324
Total plays: 687

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Roger Joseph Ebert (pron.: /ˈiːbərt/; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American journalist, film critic, and screenwriter. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death. In 1975, he was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, an award given to newspaper writers. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collections of reviews. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Roger+Ebert">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“When I think about the kinds of movies that make me cry, that make tears come to my eyes, I usually don't think about sad films. Sad films, I sort of just look at it. It's movies that are about selflessness, that are about sacrifice, about humans that believe in the good of the human race that sometimes move me.”
“Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?”
“Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.”
“Well, what is a political film? A film about politicians? Or a film about issues — sexism, racism, the environment, nuclear policy? I decided on the broader definition. If I'd limited myself to films about politicians, it would have been a short list: How many characters in any mainstream American movie seem aware of the political process, or belong to a party?”
“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.”
“I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny.”

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Official website

Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert

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Official website: www.rogerebert.com
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Commons category: Roger Ebert
date of birth: 1942-06-18
date of death: 2013-04-04
Commons gallery: Roger Ebert
start of work period: 1967-00-00
name in native language: Roger Ebert
social media followers: 658490
pseudonym: R. Hyde

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Roger Joseph Ebert (/ˈiːbərt/ EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic", and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America". Per The New York Times, "The force and grace of his opinions propelled film criticism into the mainstream of American culture. Not only did he advise moviegoers about what to see, but also how to think about what they saw."

Early in his career, Ebert co-wrote the Russ Meyer film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). Starting in 1975 and continuing for decades, Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously named At the Movies programs on commercial TV broadcast syndication. The two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase "two thumbs up," used when both gave the same film a positive review. After Siskel died from a brain tumor in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, with Richard Roeper. In 1996, Ebert began publishing essays on great films of the past; the first hundred were published as The Great Movies. He published two more volumes, and a fourth was published posthumously. In 1999, he founded the Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois.