While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. — 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
If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that Hollywood trailers advertise not the movie that has been made, but the movie that the studio wishes… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“You know a movie is slow when you start looking to see what time it is. You know it’s awful when you… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The movie has, above all, effortless charm. Once we catch on that nothing much is going to happen, we can relax and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,… — 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
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
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are. — 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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