Roger Ebert

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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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    • 92 Metascore
    • 50 Roger Ebert
    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises -- a real Grand Guignol of a movie. It’s also without any apparent purpose, unless the creation of disgust and fright is a purpose. And yet in its own way, the movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it’s well-made, well-acted, and all too effective.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Roger Ebert
    Quiz Show
    Robert Redford has directed Quiz Show as entertainment, history, and challenge.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Roger Ebert
    Fanboys
    Its primary flaw is that it's not critical. It is a celebration of an idiotic lifestyle, and I don't think it knows it.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    There is one cool, understated scene after another.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Ebert
    Toy Story 3
    This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier “Toy Story” sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    This Is Spinal Tap
    One of the funniest, most intelligent, most original films.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Goodfellas
    No finer film has ever been made about organized crime - not even "The Godfather."
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Ebert
    Fighter
    In this movie the war is not quite over. For those who survived it, maybe it will never be.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Moolaadé
    This was for me the best film at Cannes 2004, a story vibrating with urgency and life. It makes a powerful statement and at the same time contains humor, charm and astonishing visual beauty.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    An experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environment.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    L.A. Confidential
    Seductive and beautiful, cynical and twisted, and one of the best films of the year.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Roger Ebert
    Three Colors: White
    All of these films approach their subjects with such irony that we cannot take them at face value; "White" is the anti-comedy, in between the anti-tragedy and the anti-romance.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Killing
    The word that occurs to me in describing Kubrick's approach to Johnny and the film, is "control." That may suggest the link between this first mature feature and Kubrick's later films, so varied and brilliant.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Swing Time
    What Fred and Ginger had together, and what no other team has ever had in the same way, was a joy of performance. They were so good, and they knew they were so good, that they danced in celebration of their gifts.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Lost in Translation
    I loved this movie. I loved the way Coppola and her actors negotiated the hazards of romance and comedy, taking what little they needed and depending for the rest on the truth of the characters.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Breaking Away
    Breaking Away is a wonderfully sunny, funny, goofy, intelligent movie that makes you feel about as good as any movie in a long time.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    After Life
    Kore-eda, with this film and the 1997 masterpiece "Maborosi," has earned the right to be considered with Kurosawa, Bergman and other great humanists of the cinema. His films embrace the mystery of life, and encourage us to think about why we are here, and what makes us truly happy.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Roger Ebert
    The Gumball Rally
    The Gumball Rally is an easily forgettable entertainment, but at least it has a certain amount of class. "Cannonball" was straight exploitation.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Roger Ebert
    I Am Cuba
    Even its depravities and imperialist Yankee misbehavior seem quaint. But as an example of lyrical black and white filmmaking, it is still stunning.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The African Queen
    This was a movie that respected its audience and respected its genuine desire to be well and intelligently entertained.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Roger Ebert
    The Triplets of Belleville
    To call it weird would be a cowardly evasion. It is creepy, eccentric, eerie, flaky, freaky, funky, grotesque, inscrutable, kinky, kooky, magical, oddball, spooky, uncanny, uncouth and unearthly. Especially uncouth.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Man Who Would Be King
    John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King is swashbuckling adventure, pure and simple, from the hand of a master. It's unabashed and thrilling and fun.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    On the Waterfront
    The acting and the best dialogue passages have an impact that has not dimmed; it is still possible to feel the power of the film and of Brando and Kazan, who changed American movie acting forever.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Roger Ebert
    Waltz with Bashir
    Folman is an Israeli documentarian who has not worked in animation. Now he uses it as the best way to reconstruct memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present. This film would be nearly impossible to make any other way.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    An Autumn Afternoon
    Ozu is one of the greatest artists to ever make a film. This was his last one.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Halloween
    Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to “Psycho.”
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Sweet Hereafter
    This is one of the best films of the year, an unflinching lament for the human condition.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    Ghost World
    I wanted to hug this movie. It takes such a risky journey and never steps wrong. It creates specific, original, believable, lovable characters, and meanders with them through their inconsolable days, never losing its sense of humor.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Roger Ebert
    The Right Stuff
    Kaufman's love for the Yeager character pays off in the magical closing sequence of the film, when the "best pilot in the world" eyeballs anew Air Force jet and says, "I have a feeling this little old plane right here might be able to beat that Russian record."
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Roger Ebert
    Before Sunset
    The film has the materials for a lifetime project; like the "7-Up" series, this is a conversation that could be returned to every 10 years or so, as Celine and Jesse grow older.
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