With the variations of At the Movies over the decades, Roger Ebert and his partner Gene Siskel indelibly transformed the way critics discussed film with the public. In 2011, Current AV Club staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky joined critic Christy Lemire to co-host the shows final iteration. The show shuttered later that same year. Now, Vishnevestsky has […]
The movies, Roger Ebert said, “are like a machine that generates empathy… It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.” Life Itself, an engrossing new documentary based on Ebert’s memoir of the same name, inspires more than its share of empathy as it chronicles its subject’s final days. But […]
In December of 1989 Roger Ebert ended his review of Nintendo-produced Fred Savage film The Wizard thusly: The studio may have targeted kids who are Nintendo fans. But here the problem is that the movie doesn’t have much Nintendo in it, and some of that is wrong (when it’s announced, for example, that the third […]
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