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“Narrow Margin” is a clumsy version of the Idiot Plot, dressed up as a high-gloss chase thriller. The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot. And rarely has there been a film in which more idiots make ...
I've been bringing Ebert's rule-breaking reviews into writing classes at the University of Chicago for about a decade. It's dangerous material to give to students, when you hope students will learn discipline before they begin to stray. Ebert strays at will. He's no more confined by revie...
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Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert said that while Oldman is "unsurpassable" in portraying depraved characters, the film is "an exercise in overwrought style and overwritten melodrama, and proof that a great cast cannot save a film from self-destruction." Todd McCarthy of Variety also had...
Roger Ebertpassed awayyesterday, leaving the world with years and years of movie reviews to remember him by. When Ebert liked a movie, he was well spoken, complimentary and often poignant. When he didn't like a movie, he was scathing, relentless and all around funny as hell. ...
Praise from Roger Ebert was sometimes seen as the biggest win a movie could get. Conversely, when he hated a film, he didn't pull his punches.
The movie critic at theSun-Timesleft about a year later and the job was given to Ebert. A full schedule of graduate studies and a full time job was too much to juggle, though, so he left school to focus on writing movie reviews and a book. In 1967, the University Press published hi...
Roger Ebert's "criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range. . . ." -- New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 600 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes,...
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