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Roger Joseph Ebert (18 June 1942 – 4 April 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.
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Anderson sees these people joined at a level below any possible knowledge, down where fate and destiny lie. They have been joined by their actions and their choices.
This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.
All of these threads converge, in one way or another, upon an event there is no way for the audience to anticipate.
Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film.
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
This process leads to the present moment, and to all of us.
It's so rare to find a movie that doesn't take sides.
At last we see what a four-hour erection looks like.
Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film.
Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives.
There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.
A man wearing a funny hat is not funny. But if the man doesn't know he's wearing a funny hat--now you've got something.
Vol. I (2003)
Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.
In the twilight of the 20th century, here is a comedy to reassure us that there is hope — that the world we see around us represents progress, not decay.
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.
If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
Phil undergoes his transformation but never loses his edge. He becomes a better Phil, not a different Phil.
Review of Groundhog Day (1993)
The point is not that he has come to love Rita. It is that he has learned to see the angel.
Review of Groundhog Day (1993)
Yes, we have more problems. But also more solutions, more opportunities and more freedom.
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