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Chicago Sun-Times, RogerEbert.com
For 5,564 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Roger Ebert's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 42: Forty Two Up
Lowest review score: 0 I Spit on Your Grave
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,184 out of 5564
  2. Mixed: 802 out of 5564
  3. Negative: 578 out of 5564
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    The best of three Star Wars films, and the most thought-provoking. After the space opera cheerfulness of the original film, this one plunges into darkness and even despair, and surrenders more completely to the underlying mystery of the story. It is because of the emotions stirred in Empire that the entire series takes on a mythic quality that resonates back to the first and ahead to the third. This is the heart.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    A compelling thriller to begin with, but it adds the rare quality of having a heroine more fascinating than the story.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    True Grit
    One of the glories of True Grit is that it recognizes Wayne's special presence. It was not directed by Ford (who in any event probably couldn't have been objective enough about Wayne), but it was directed by another old Western hand, Hathaway, who has made the movie of his lifetime and given us a masterpiece. This is the sort of film you call a movie, instead of the kind of movie you call a film.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Affliction
    Nolte and Coburn are magnificent in this film, which is like an expiation or amends for abusive men. It is revealing to watch them in their scenes together--to see how they're able to use physical presence to sketch the history of a relationship.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Forrest Gump
    What a magical movie.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    A quiet movie, shaken from time to time by ripples of emotional turbulence far beneath the surface.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Beaches of Agnès
    If you have never seen a single film by Agnes Varda, perhaps it is best to start with The Beaches of Agnes.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    This movie is one of the most relentlessly nonstop action pictures ever made, with a virtuoso series of climactic sequences that must last an hour and never stop for a second. It's a roller-coaster ride, a visual extravaganza, a technical triumph, and a whole lot of fun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    An Inconvenient Truth
    Am I acting as an advocate in this review? Yes, I am. I believe that to be "impartial" and "balanced" on global warming means one must take a position like Gore's. There is no other view that can be defended.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Zodiac
    Its most impressive accomplishment is to gather a bewildering labyrinth of facts and suspicions over a period of years, and make the journey through this maze frightening and suspenseful.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Broadcast News
    Broadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the thing it does best is look into a certain kind of personality and a certain kind of relationship.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Gone with the Wind
    A towering landmark of film, quite simply because it tells a good story, and tells it wonderfully well.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Broken Embraces
    A voluptuary of a film, drunk on primary colors, caressing Penelope Cruz, using the devices of a Hitchcock to distract us with surfaces while the sinister uncoils beneath. As it ravished me, I longed for a freeze frame to allow me to savor a shot.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Bonnie and Clyde
    Bonnie and Clyde is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance. It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy, nauseating, funny, heartbreaking, and astonishingly beautiful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Welcome to the Dollhouse
    But I'm making Welcome to the Dollhouse sound like some sort of grim sociological study, and in fact it's a funny, intensely entertaining film.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Caché (Hidden)
    A perplexing and disturbing film of great effect.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Howards End
    The splendid cast embodies the characters so fully that the events actually seem to be happening to them, instead of unfolding from a screenplay.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Stranger Than Paradise
    It is like no other film you've seen, and yet you feel right at home in it. It seems to be going nowhere, and knows every step it wants to make. It is a constant, almost kaleidoscopic experience of discovery, and we try to figure out what the film is up to and it just keeps moving steadfastly ahead, fade in, fade out, fade in, fade out, making a mountain out of a molehill.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Russian Ark
    The film is a glorious experience to witness, not least because, knowing the technique and understanding how much depends on every moment, we almost hold our breath.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Million Dollar Baby
    A masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true...The best film of the year.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Me and You and Everyone We Know
    A film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Children of Men
    The performances are crucial, because all of these characters have so completely internalized their world that they make it palpable, and themselves utterly convincing.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Secretariat
    It is a great film about greatness, the story of the horse and the no less brave woman who had faith in him.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Crazy Heart
    Jeff Bridges is a virtual certainty to win his first Oscar, after four nominations.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Oldboy
    Oldboy is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Good Morning, Vietnam
    Good Morning, Vietnam works as straight comedy and as a Vietnam-era MASH, and even the movie’s love story has its own bittersweet integrity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Girlfriend Experience
    This film is true about human nature. It is not universal, but within its particular focus, it is unrelenting.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Wild Child
    So often movies keep our attention by flashy tricks and cheap melodrama; it is an intellectually cleansing experience to watch this intelligent and hopeful film.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Blow Out
    Best of all, this movie is inhabited by a real cinematic intelligence. The audience isn't condescended to. In sequences like the one in which Travolta reconstructs a film and sound record of the accident, we're challenged and stimulated: We share the excitement of figuring out how things develop and unfold, when so often the movies only need us as passive witnesses.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle works so well because Eddie is played by Robert Mitchum, and Mitchum has perhaps never been better.
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