tracesauveur 's review for:

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

3.5

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As someone who occasionally gets paid to write about movies, an entire history about the two constantly bickering men that essentially proved the worth of film criticism to the general public was something like a bit of catnip for me. There are times where this history gets bogged down in some of the specifics of varying studio heads and producers that had a hand in creating Siskel & Ebert, and I could envision other readers wondering why they're reading the twentieth example of "these two guys fought a lot." But I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of all the recounting of the boys's best bits, repetitive nature be damned. Good comfort read.