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Roger Ebert

Tomatometer-approved critic
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Chicago, IL

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http://rogerebert.com/

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North (1994) 12% 0/4 EDIT “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. ” – Chicago Sun-Times Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is a triumph of performance, art direction and mood over materials that can lend themselves so easily to self-satire. ” – Chicago Sun-Times Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% 2/4 EDIT “This movie takes a deep breath and plunges headlong into the unknown -- and belly-flops into a universe full of Jell-O. What an anticlimax.” – Chicago Sun-Times Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% 2/4 EDIT “The story of "Return to Oz" is so mean-spirited and dreary that it overwhelms everything else.” – Chicago Sun-Times Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Years and years from now, when Coppola’s budget and his problems have long been forgotten, “Apocalypse” will still stand, I think, as a grand and grave and insanely inspired gesture of filmmaking.” – Chicago Sun-Times Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Home (2008) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “What happens would not make sense in many households, but in this one, it represents a certain continuity, and confirms deep currents we sensed almost from the first.” – Chicago Sun-Times Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “Seven, a dark, grisly, horrifying and intelligent thriller, may be too disturbing for many people, I imagine, although if you can bear to watch it, you will see filmmaking of a high order. ” – Chicago Sun-Times Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Oh, what a lovely film. I was almost hugging myself while I watched it.” – Chicago Sun-Times Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% 4/4 EDIT “Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn't care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking.” – Chicago Sun-Times Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Amélie (2001) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “Amelie is a delicious pastry of a movie, a lighthearted fantasy in which a winsome heroine overcomes a sad childhood and grows up to bring cheer to the needful and joy to herself. You see it, and later when you think about it, you smile.” – Chicago Sun-Times Feb 13, 2024 Full Review The White Girl (1990) 2/4 EDIT “Brown turns in a smooth, professional job in his debut as a writer-director, but the movie is undermined somewhat by his single-minded vision of it as a message picture.” – Chicago Sun-Times Dec 26, 2023 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary. They're not trapped with clichés. ” – Chicago Sun-Times Dec 21, 2023 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “If Home Alone had limited itself to the things that might possibly happen to a forgotten 8-year-old, I think I would have liked it more.” – Chicago Sun-Times Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Phantasm (1979) 72% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's put together rather curiously out of disjointed scenes, snatches of dialog, and brief strokes of characterization.” – Chicago Sun-Times Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Cocoon (1985) 82% 3/4 EDIT “"Cocoon" is one of the sweetest, gentlest science-fiction movies I’ve seen, a hymn to the notion that aliens might come from outer space and yet still be almost as corny and impulsive as we are.” – Chicago Sun-Times Nov 12, 2023 Full Review Play It as It Lays (1972) 64% 4/4 EDIT “Play It as It Lays is an astringent, cynical movie that ultimately manages to spin one single timid thread of hope.” – Chicago Sun-Times Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Night Games (1966) 33% 2.5/4 EDIT “It is a film made entirely in the mind, as if the heart were no concern, and it can be seen that way -- as a cold, aloof study of human neurosis. But not for a moment did I care about any of the characters.” – Chicago Sun-Times Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Soderbergh's film uses a level-headed approach. It watches, it observes, it does not do much editorializing. The hopelessness of anti-drug measures is brought home through practical scenarios, not speeches and messages -- except for a few.” – Chicago Sun-Times Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% 4/4 EDIT “John Sayles' Lone Star contains so many riches, it humbles ordinary movies. And yet they aren't thrown before us, to dazzle and impress: It is only later, thinking about the film, that we appreciate the full reach of its material.” – Chicago Sun-Times Sep 6, 2023 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 68% 4/4 EDIT “Alcoholism has been called a disease of denial. What When a Man Loves a Woman understands is that those around the alcoholic often deny it, too, and grow accustomed to their relationship with a drunk.” – Chicago Sun-Times Sep 1, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 74% 4/4 EDIT “[This] is the kind of movie that Paul Mazursky does especially well. It's a comedy that finds most of its laughs in the close observations of human behavior, and that finds its story in a contemporary subject Mazursky has some thoughts about.” – Chicago Sun-Times Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Batman (1989) 77% 2/4 EDIT “The Gotham City created in Batman is one of the most distinctive and atmospheric places I’ve seen in the movies. It’s a shame something more memorable doesn’t happen there. ” – Chicago Sun-Times Jul 25, 2023 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Hate is, I suppose, a Generation X film, whatever that means, but more mature and insightful than the American Gen X movies. In America, we cling to the notion that we have choice... In France, Kassovitz says, it is society that has made the choice.” – Chicago Sun-Times Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% 4/4 EDIT “Magnolia is operatic in its ambition, a great, joyous leap into melodrama and coincidence, with ragged emotions, crimes and punishments, deathbed scenes, romantic dreams, generational turmoil and celestial intervention, all scored to insistent music.” – Chicago Sun-Times Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 4/4 EDIT “The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it... This is a movie to surrender yourself to.” – Chicago Sun-Times Jul 11, 2023 Full Review
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