Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.' — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Most courtroom movies feel it necessary to end with a clear-cut verdict. But 12 Angry Men never states whether the defendant is innocent or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“One of my delights in these books, on the other hand, has been to include movies not often cited as “great”—some because they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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