American - Critic | June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.
Roger Ebert
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
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To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?
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'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
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Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
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It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
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'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
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One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
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Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.
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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
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You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
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