More from Roger Ebert

  1. Thrillers don't exist in a plausible universe. They consist of preposterous situations survived by skill, courage, craft and luck.
  2. Writing daily film criticism is a balancing act between the bottom line and the higher reaches, between the answers to the questions, (1) I…
  3. There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny…
  4. Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
  5. There are few issues in the area of film preservation that arouse more anger than the issue of colorization. That is because it is an issue…
  6. Roger Ebert is a national treasure. He is the most recognizable and well known movie critic. He has been my favorite writer for some time n…
  7. People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a f…
  8. Through his boorish, knee-jerk leftism, Ebert has become merely another Hollywood elitist thumbing his nose at America. Two thumbs down.

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