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Ebert's movie reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. He wrote more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His television programs have also been widely syndicated, and have been nominated for Emmy awards.

In February 1995, a section of Chicago's Erie Street near the CBS Studios was given the honorary name Siskel & Ebert Way. Ebert was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in June 2005, the first professional film critic to receive one. Roger Ebert was named as the most influential pundit in America by Forbes Magazine, beating the likes of Bill Maher, Lou Dobbs, and Bill O'Reilly. He has honorary degrees from the University of Colorado, the American Film Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

There is something unnatural about just…going to the movies. Man has rehearsed for hundreds of thousands of years to learn a certain sense of time. He gets up in the morning and the hours wheel in their ancient order across the sky until it grows dark again and he goes to sleep. A movie critic gets up in the morning and in two hours it is dark again, and the passage of time is fractured by editing and dissolves and flashbacks and jump cuts.

Sometimes movie critics feel as if they've gotten everybody else's. Siskel described his job as "covering the national dream beat," because if you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may seem. His career began in 1966, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times' Sunday magazine. In 1975, he became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize.

That same year Ebert teamed up with fellow movie critic Gene Siskel on a television show where they debated the quality of the latest films. The show proved a hit, and Siskel and Ebert became household names. They worked together until 1999 when Siskel passed away. Ebert died on April 4, 2013, at age 70, in Chicago, Illinois. Opinions are subjective, especially when it comes to movies.

It can be hard to determine which ones can be deemed "terrible" within the general conscious. After all, as this article will hopefully prove, there's a movie out there for everyone, even if no one else appreciates it. Nevertheless, based on Audience Scores complied on Rotten Tomatoes that are 30% or lower, we gathered a collection of favorable Roger Ebert reviews where the film critic's effusive praise wasn't matched by the public's prickly perception. You can't always agree with the consensus, though Ebert does his best to justify his appreciation for each of these otherwise-panned movies. Let's take a look at some films that Ebert liked and/or loved that seemingly everyone else — including general audiences and fellow film critics — hated.

For you see, the 720-page book follows another frustrated film critic — this one named B. Rosenberger Rosenberg — to the end of civilization and beyond as he attempts to review a movie so enormous he can't wrap his mind around it. Like most of Kaufman's work, it's about the slow suffocation of solipsism, and the impossibility of engaging with art — or anything else, for that matter — when you can't get out of your own way.

It's also screamingly funny, with a laugh-out-loud zinger planted in pretty much every paragraph. Multiple people have compared this to Neeson's 2008 release of "Taken." Both have a similar concept; Liam goes on a fast-paced journey to retrieve something special that has been taken from him. Unlike "Taken," "Unknown" is more of a suspense mystery than an action flick. There are some chases and fight scenes, but that is not the main focus.

The movie's plot is focus and it is unique for it is unpredictable. We are confused like Neeson's character and there are times we don't know if he will succeed. There are multiple twists and unlike most mystery thrillers, it took me more than half through the film to figure it all out. If it wasn't written by Roger Ebert, I may have given up on this book during the first few chapters.

Unless you escaped from the Nazis or had a really exceptional childhood, most autobiographies should really skip quickly through one's early years. I am really glad Ebert had a mostly happy childhood in Champaign, but I don't necessarily need to read about it. Luckily, I knew the story would get better, and it did.

Ebert is not a fancy writer, but he gets at issues and details that matter, which is probably why his movie reviews won him a Pulitzer. The chapters on various characters from his newsroom days are the highlights of this book. Also, Ebert describes his recent battle with cancer as well as he can, considering that the treatment and surgeries were so radical that he spent much of the past few years in a medical netherworld. He is straightforward about why he believes his cancer treatment was so physically devastating, and has developed a spiritual but also no-nonsense philosophy about how he will live the rest of his life.

Roger Ebert is great and it was fun to hear a bit of his life story. He was my favorite film critic and I always loved to see what he'd say about a movie. This felt a bit all over the place - skipping around constantly, repeating itself some times, without any real reason other than an attempt at being less of a linear biography I guess - but I still enjoyed it. His writing is great and a lot of fun; despite disagreeing with him on plenty of things, I found it interesting to hear all of his thoughts and feelings and opinions. Tragically, Roger Ebert is no longer with us, but the world-renowned film critic and historian lives on through his reviews and his influence.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer is one of the most instantly recognizable people in his profession, notably in a line of work where so few are well-known. He made a career out of writing about his admiration of the cinema. Nevertheless, while Ebert didn't always love the movies he saw, he liked more than a few of them. In fact, there are times where he was alone in his appreciation of certain films, and his opinions could sometimes be jarringly different than the status quo. Ebert spent a semester as a master's student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his graduate studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD student at the University of Chicago, he prepared to move to Chicago.

Instead, Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge, who hired Ebert as a reporter and feature writer at the Sun-Times in 1966. He attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year. After movie critic Eleanor Keane left the Sun-Times in April 1967, editor Robert Zonka gave the job to Ebert. The load of graduate school and being a film critic proved too much, so Ebert left the University of Chicago to focus his energies on film criticism.

The espionage aspect gets even more complicated from there. To that end, Diesel and Cena take the "long lost brother who did a heel turn" thing drop-dead seriously. After a certain point Cena's scowling, glowering, and jaw-flexing gets a bit dull.

You may start wishing the movie would skip ahead to the big confrontation between Dom and Jakob that Settles All Family Business. The concluding moments between the characters are moving, though, in a World Wrestling Entertainment sort of way. I thought The Social Network definitely deserves all the accolades it gets, it's Fincher's best movie thus far and the one that will be part of his legacy. I also appreciate The American getting number 8, vastly underrated film, it's like a Terrence Malick directed spy movie. Also #3 - If you disagree with 99% of Ebert's reviews, then you must hate a lot of good movies. I really can't see anyone disagreeing with 99% of his reviews , so I just assume your exaggerating.

His Kick Ass review is the only one of the year I can think of that might be worth debating over. Plus, there is no critic in the world that you will agree with all the time, so bashing all critics that write a review you disagree with will just send you down a spiral of infinite sadness and pessimism. Just some positive advice for you and the many others who share your opinion. The scenes in which Kline torments Palin can be difficult to watch, and the National Stuttering Project asked to have a scene edited out (in which Palin's stuttering is mocked). I appreciate that Palin made a movie about a person who stutters severely and the cruelty some people have towards stutterers.

Americans tend to not appreciate British "black humor." Deshne 1972Deshne a black and white film "tells the story of Abbas, known as "Braggart abbas Aqa", a lonely soul and a stuttering person with no friends or family who is working as a co-busdriver. . . ." The full movie is available online - in Arabic. Robert Zonka, who was named the paper's feature editor the same day I was hired at the Chicago Sun-Times, became one of the best friends of a lifetime. One day in March 1967, he called me into a conference room, told me that Eleanor Keen, the paper's movie critic, was retiring, and that I was the new critic. I walked away in elation and disbelief, yet hardly suspected that this day would set the course for the rest of my life. I consider myself major film buff, yet I was unfamiliar with Roger Ebert until a couple of years ago, when I accidentally stumbled upon his Chicago Sun Times blog.

I loved his reviews, even the ones I disagreed with, and the candid tone of his personal blog entries, so I grabbed "Life Itself" the moment I laid eyes on its Woody Allen-style cover in the bookshop. Probably my ignorance about him helped, as I didn't bring any preconceived ideas to the lecture, and I can see how mr. Ebert can be considered a controversial and polarizing subject, especially to fans of a particular actor, director or movie genre. But the book is not really about movies, it touches on them only tangentially, in the impact and revelations they brought to the private development of the author.

Life Itself is about looking back and mapping the turning points, the pit-stops and the fellow travelers in the journey of Ebert the man, not of Ebert the critic. While Johnson sees Black Adam as the culmination of his career, Blunt is uninterested in comic book films. "I really understand that are like a religion for a lot of people," she says. I don't have this burning desire to play a superhero." While Johnson has been shooting Black Adam, Blunt has been shooting a Western for the BBC called The English, which Amazon will release in the U.S. She plays an aristocratic woman who's seeking revenge for her son's death and befriends a Pawnee warrior.

"It's about love and revenge and race and history," she says. Ebert's decision paid off in 1966, when he was hired to write for the Chicago Sun-Times' Sunday magazine. Six months later, after the paper's society reporter died, the green reporter was tapped to become the paper's new film critic. From the get-go, Ebert demonstrated an energized gusto for writing about film that few could match. On his very first day at his new job, he gave readers a look at the French film Galia, using the film to advance his overall opinion about the entire genre of French "New Wave" movies. Certainly his bosses didn't sense anything; his appointment was buried on page 57 of the paper's April 5, 1967 edition.

Ebert provided DVD audio commentaries for several films, including Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Dark City, Floating Weeds, Crumb, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (for which Ebert also wrote the screenplay, based on a story that he co-wrote with Russ Meyer). Ebert was also interviewed by Central Park Media for an extra feature on the DVD release of the anime film Grave of the Fireflies. Ebert appeared as a guest star multiple times on Sesame Street. A bio-documentary about Ebert, called Life Itself, was released in 2014 to universal acclaim.

Harrelson can do this kind of world-weary, duplicitous character in his sleep, and he's as good as you'd expect him to be, while the Japanese rock star/actor known as Miyavi is fantastic as a superstar hit man with a real sense of style. The story starts with a special-forces soldier encountering a hostile, ghostlike figure in the ruins of a Moldovan city. DARPA engineer Mark Clyne , who designed the goggles that made the anomaly visible to soldiers, is called to Moldova to consult. Half an hour of slow-paced character-building and tech talk later, it emerges that the Americans are being killed off by what appear to be ghosts — fast-moving, transparent blue-white energy-figures that ignore conventional weapons and kill with a touch. It's so rare to find a movie that doesn't take sides. Conflict is said to be the basis of popular fiction, and yet here is a film that seizes us with its first scene and never lets go, and we feel sympathy all the way through for everyone in it.

To be sure, they sometimes do bad things, but the movie understands them and their flaws. Like great fiction, House of Sand and Fog sees into the hearts of its characters, and loves and pities them. … "House of Sand and Fog" relates not a plot with its contrived ups and downs but a story. In short, "Unknown" is a fairly decent mystery thriller. Good cinematography—I particularly like the whole gray, dreary atmosphere that reflects the film's location's bleak weather.

Good suspense— the sound mixers must've had a kick in adding emphasis on sound effects to startle the audience. The one thing I will note is that Liam Neeson is really showing his age. This is not necessarily a bad thing; on the contrary, it helps his character out. It gets tiresome that Hollywood always uses the generic 30-something year old actor with smashing abs who is tossed into a terrible situation. It is nice to see an aging actor play an upper middle-aged man who has perhaps lost his mind while running away from people trying to kill him.

This is easily one of the best celebrity memoirs I have ever read, because Ebert is more of a reporter than a celebrity. Each chapter is like a newspaper or magazine column - self-contained, although all the chapters add up to cover his life and thoughts. But the fact that it is episodic makes it all the more interesting to read.

You can sample a chapter here, or there, like dim sum. Then leave the book for a few days and pick it up again. Although his life is not terrible "event" full, it is interesting because of the way he writes. He is not always the center of things, more an observer much of the time, and the way he communicates what he is observing makes it fascinating. There are a few chapters where he talks about some of his favorite people - Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, Martin Scorsese, but probably three-fourths of the book is not movie related. He talks in depth about his youth, which was very "normal," but still interesting, his college years, and young 20's when he lived for a year in South Africa, and traveled to England regularly.

Many memoirs are fun to read but easily forgotten, but Ebert's will stay in my memory. Ebert turned to blogging late in life, which led him to this passionate memoir, published two years before his death. I made an unbelievable amount of notes while reading this book. When Roger was writing this book, he knew his time was short.

He acknowledges that he was an arrogant asshole most of his life. He did win a Pulitzer, and he never grew tired of reminding people, especially Siskel, that he had won it. He was insecure about his weight, and I believe overcompensated by feeling he needed to always be the smartest man in the room.

He drank, and he drank some more and then abruptly quit in 1979 when he was on the cusp of self-destruction. Cancer took him apart a piece at a time, but he fought it until it took his last breath because there was always another movie he wanted to see or another book he wanted to read or another place he wanted to visit. In the fall of 2017, after a tiring night shoot on Universal's Skyscraper, Dwayne Johnson, arguably the busiest person in Hollywood, set aside some time to film a video for Emily Blunt. Flirting, 1991 Desson Howe of the Washington Post, liked this film which is set in a boarding school in rural Australia in 1965 and is about the romantic alliance between gangly outcast Danny, who is teased for his stutter, and Ugandan boarder Thandiwe. Die Hard With A Vengeance 1995This third movie in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis, was released about the time of the Oklahoma bombing and features a very realistic bombing of a Manhatten department store.