Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebertwas an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. 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 collected reviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityUrbana, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The target audience didn't care that we hated those movies because they just expected us to hate them.
What am I to think when six weekends of this year already have been won by slasher movies that were not screened for critics and got bad ratings on the tomato meter when they were screened?
Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.
I don't think he's an a-, ... But if he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews.
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
The secret of the movie is that it doesn't strain to draw parallels with current world events - because it doesn't have to.
There was a bedrock of respect that developed over the years,