Roger Ebert (Actor)

Reviews of Roger Ebert Movies

Looking for reviews of Roger Ebert movies? Cinafilm has a total of 885 reviews across 12 movies.

Movies starring Roger Ebert have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

Life Itself - released in 2014 - is Roger Ebert's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 492 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Roger Ebert is Jiminy Glick in Lalawood - released in 2005 - with a score of 46% based on 66 reviews.

Actor Biography

Roger Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter.  Described by Forbes magazine as the "most powerful pundit in America", Ebert was the first film critic to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as a Pulitzer Prize. 

Ebert's began his criticizing career in 1967 as a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and later gained national recognition co-hosting a number of shows with Gene Siskel in which they coined the 'thumbs up- thumbs down' style of reviewing.  

Following Siskel's 1999 death Ebert continued to host "And The Movies" with Richard Roeper until 2006 when he stopped appearing due to developing Thyroid cancer.  Complications from the cancer ended up taking much of his tongue and jaw, forcing Ebert to undergo massive reconstruction surgery and speak with the help of a computer program (which was configured with his own voice due to the volume of recorded spoken language from Ebert's TV show).  

He continued to write reviews for his website later in life. On April 3rd, 2013 announced his cancer had returned and he would be taking a "leave of presence", lowering the amount he would be writing and only reviewing films he wanted to review.  

Ebert succumbed to his cancer the next day, April 4th, 2013. 

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Roger Ebert has acted in films with Gene Siskel, Whoopi Goldberg, Sharon Stone and Laura Dern.

Roger Ebert has worked with these film directors: Rosanna Arquette, Lloyd Kaufman, Don Hahn and Steve James.