What's Roger Ebert's greatest piece of film criticism? Some excellent picks in this week's Criticwire Survey.
Read More »Here's another wonderful tribute to the legendary critic.
Read More »The staff of Indiewire and Criticwire share their favorite Ebert essays, reviews, videos, and more.
Read More »As many of The Playlist team wrote earlier today, the late Roger Ebert was instrumental for many of us discovering a nurturing what has become a lifelong passion of cinema. And much of that has to do with "At The Movies," his influential long running show with Gene Siskel (and in later, less satisfy...
Read More »The reaction to Roger Ebert's death has been overwhelming and gratifying. The major news networks, CNN, Frontline, you name it, they covered it. Every single movie site or reviewer or blogger or anyone who cared about movies weighed in.
Read More »Ebert, in his own words, describes how he discovered many classic films, in this essay from Emanuel Levy's book, "Citizen Sarris: American Film Critic."
Read More »"Siskel & Ebert" was my first taste of film criticism. Growing up amidst the strip malls and multiplexes of the Northern California suburbs, I used to watch the show with my dad, before I started swiping the arts section of the newspaper every morning.
Read More »On Thursday, the film world lost a true titan. And it wasn’t a director or movie star or producer that warranted the kind of heartfelt and universal response we saw that afternoon -- it was a film critic. There were disarmingly earnest Onion articles and political cartoons and a statement from Presi...
Read More »A collection of links to longer obituaries for the beloved Chicago Sun-Times critic.
Read More »"At the Movies" producer David Plummer shares a great story about Gene and Roger.
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