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The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
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“I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.” ~Roger Ebert, The 400 Blows

“It does not hook its effects on specific plot points, nor does it ask us to identify with Dave Bowman or any other character. It says to us: We became men when we learned to think. Our minds have given us the tools to understand where we live and who we are. Now it is time to move on to the next step, to know that we live not on a planet, but among the stars, and that we are not flesh, but intelligence.” ~Roger Ebert, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Known as a humanist and a populist, Roger Ebert critiqued films from 1967 to 2013. That’s 46 years of bearing witness to the best (and worst) of world cinema. These reviews are some of his best.