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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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I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask.
Vol. II (2005)
Dances With Wolves has the kind of vision and ambition that is rare in movies today.
I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.
There is a word for this movie, and that word is: Ick.
The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous.
The elements in The Wizard of Oz powerfully fill a void that exists inside many children.
I must slow down now, which is why I'm taking what I like to call "a leave of presence."
I don't know when a film has connected more immediately with my own personal experience.
Minority Report reminds us why we go to the movies in the first place.
The film's coda provides a vision of an afterlife, a desolate landscape on which quiet people solemnly recognize and greet one another, and all is understood in the fullness of time.
I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot.
Now that we know Quentin Tarantino can make a movie like Reservoir Dogs, it's time for him to move on and make a better one.
The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.
Kids are not stupid. They are among the sharpest, cleverest, most eagle-eyed creatures on God's Earth, and very little escapes their notice.
I find it a way to elevate the whole story into a larger realm of inexplicable but real behavior. We need something beyond the human to add another dimension.
Magnolia is the kind of film I instinctively respond to. Leave logic at the door. Do not expect subdued taste and restraint, but instead a kind of operatic ecstasy.
Milk was the right person in the right place at the right time, and he rose to the occasion.
I prefer vertical prayer, directed up toward heaven, rather than horizontal prayer, directed sideways toward me.
Life Itself : A Memoir (2011)
The only true ending is death. Any other movie ending is arbitrary.
qtd.in Opposable Thumbs (2023)
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