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  1. Old movie review & film summary (2021)

    Old. 108 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2021. A family heads to a secluded beach vacation. They speak vaguely of the passage of time in a way that parents often do with their children, as mom mentions how she can't wait to hear her daughter's singing voice when she grows up. Shortly thereafter, it's revealed that mom may not be able to do that ...

  2. Ten Greatest Films of All Time

    Roger Ebert. December 19, 2012. 12 min read. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's "Notorious." Ebert's Best Film Lists1967 - present. If I must make a list of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, my first vow is to make the list for myself, not for anybody else. I am sure than Eisenstein's " The Battleship Potemkin " is a great ...

  3. Old Henry movie review & film summary (2021)

    And he puts it to undeniably superb use in the early portions of this movie. He's heard before he is seen, telling the viewer of his origins: New York born, he spent time Kansas, Arizona and New Mexico; the movie's setting, 1906, finds him in the territory of Oklahoma, farming. As he works the land, Henry's son Wyatt, bored with his tasks ...

  4. Roger Ebert

    Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈ iː b ər t / EE-burt; June 18, 1942 - April 4, 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. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. [1]

  5. 'Old' Review: They Say Sun Can Age You, but This Is Ridiculous

    July 22, 2021. Old. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Drama, Mystery, Thriller. PG-13. 1h 48m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn ...

  6. Old

    Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 7, 2021 Full Review Mark Kermode Kermode & Mayo's Film Review It is interesting, but definitely walks a tight rope and I imagine some viewers having enough. It would've worked ...

  7. Old

    Jul 23, 2021. Shot with a poet's eye and a tin ear for dialogue, this tricked-up thriller about the horror of getting old too fast brings out the best and worst in M. Knight Shyamalan by throwing a wet beach blanket on a Covid-resonant premise about sudden death and the collapse of time. Read More.

  8. Roger Ebert's Four-Star Reviews 1967-2007

    7.3 (115K) Rate. 56 Metascore. The music of The Beatles, New York in the 1960s, and the American youth's actions to protest the Vietnam War, form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist. Director Julie Taymor Stars Evan Rachel Wood Jim Sturgess Joe Anderson.

  9. Roger Ebert Movie Reviews & Previews

    3.5/4. Certified fresh score. 83%. Heat (1995) Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when ...

  10. For Pulitzer-Winning Critic Roger Ebert, Films Were A Journey

    Film critic Roger Ebert died Thursday after struggling for years with cancer. He was 70 years old. His thumb may have made him famous on TV, but Ebert was first and foremost a print journalist. He ...

  11. Try Not to Cry While Reading This Vintage 'E.T.' Review by Roger Ebert

    Jun 18, 2019. Roger Ebert's website, in honor of the late film critic's birthday today, has republished a 1992 review of Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The review is written as a letter to his grandchildren, Raven and Emil, and discusses the movie as part of their experience. Ebert had already seen the film by this ...

  12. Old School movie review & film summary (2003)

    91 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2003. Roger Ebert. February 21, 2003. 3 min read. Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn clock in at an average age of 34, which is a little old to be a frat boy. It is not their age but their longevity, however, that I question. In "Old School," where they occupy a series of off-campus party houses, they follow ...

  13. If I go watch an old film, I read Roger Ebert's review

    My absolute favorite film was a box office bomb of epic proportions 10 years ago, was one of the last films Ebert reviewed before his death, and was one of his most effusive 4 star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews, for the Wachowski's Cloud Atlas. "But, oh, what a film this is!

  14. Can You Guess Which Movie Roger Ebert Hated?

    Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert was never one to mince words about movies he loved, often revisiting his earlier reviews to expand on why they cast a spell over him. Ebert was far ...

  15. 12 of Roger Ebert's best movie reviews

    Orion. "I will not even say whether aliens appear in the movie, because whether they do or not is beside the point. The purpose of the film is to evoke pure emotion through the use of skilled ...

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  17. 'Death Becomes Her': What Isabella Rossellini Told Her Nude Body Double

    While discussing another one of her recent projects with IndieWire, Rossellini responded to legendary late film critic Roger Ebert's original review of the movie, in which he stated that ...

  18. 10 Worst Romantic Movies of All Time, According to Roger Ebert

    This Oscar-winning symbolic 80s movie earned a Most Hated List spot and a one-and-a-half-star award from Ebert. Flashdance is the story of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals), an 18-year-old welder by day ...

  19. 7 of Roger Ebert's Most Brutal Movie Reviews

    Ebert disliked North so much, one of the collections of his most negative reviews, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, gets its name from his 1994 take: "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated ...

  20. Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert

    Roger Ebert.com is the ultimate destination for movie lovers, featuring reviews and ratings by the legendary film critic Roger Ebert and his colleagues. Discover the best films of all genres, eras, and countries, and learn more about the art and craft of cinema.

  21. Roger Ebert's Final List of His Top 10 Favorite Films

    The Gen­er­al (Buster Keaton, 1926) — free online. Rag­ing Bull (Mar­tin Scors­ese, 1980) Tokyo Sto­ry (Yasu­jirô Ozu, 1953) The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick, 2010) Ver­ti­go (Alfred Hitch­cock, 1958) Decid­ing that he must vote for "one new film" he had­n't includ­ed on his 2002 list, Ebert nar­rowed it down to two ...

  22. old movie review ebert

    Copy from this list; Report this list; Roger Ebert's Four-Star Reviews 1967-2007. A complete list of every movie Ebert gave a perfect four-star rating, from his book of the same n

  23. Wolfs movie review & film summary (2024)

    There are few droll joys in cinema more satisfying than watching and hearing George Clooney and Brad Pitt exchange knowing looks and wry, occasionally pointed banter. They've appeared in several films together, but the camaraderie stuff mainly happens in the "Ocean's" caper films directed by Steven Soderbergh. (In the Coen Brothers' 2008 "Burn After Reading," to name one of their ...

  24. Good country for dead men movie review (2007)

    Crime. 122 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2007. Roger Ebert. November 8, 2007. 5 min read. Javier Bardem plays a merciless killer in the Coen brothers study of incomprehensible evil. The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones. He describes a teenage killer he once sent to the chair. The boy had killed his 14-year-old girlfriend.