Roger Ebert

Person · Open Library

Born

June 18, 1942

Died

April 4, 2013

Works

75

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Film & TV

Acting · Urbana, Illinois, USA

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…

Known for

• 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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1968-05-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

324

Total plays

687

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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,951x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,837x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,551x

4. An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust

   · 1995 · cited 28,247x

5. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

   · 2005 · cited 18,721x

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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

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