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Summary: Uninspired Trifle
Review: Pulitzer prize winning author of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Roger Ebert won't be remembered much longer then his late cohort Gene Siskel when all that coagulated pasta around his midsection catches up with him. Franchise greedy distributors, who often have the same owners of the newspaper/TV. media who give critics their free tickets slather quotes from Ebert and his one liner reviews on their products as if they were apologizing for it. Least buyer resistance conscience studios find Ebert's politically correct social palliatives congenial to their profits.
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Summary: Up-to-date and Very funny!
Review: Roger Ebert generally gives some of the best reviews in the world. While I don't always agree with his reviews (the imperfect but still very good I Know What You Did Last Summer earned one star), they are very in depth and very very funny. (I loved his review of Armageddon!) This is a must for every movie fan!
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Summary: EBERT'S ALWAYS ON THE MONEY
Review: Roger Ebert is a Chicago Sun-Times film critic with a nationally syndicated weekly television series he co-hosts with fellow columnist at the Sun-Times Richard Roeper. He's a film critic who has been in the local and national spotlight since at least 1969 and he's hardly ever wrong. I have agreed not only with his ratings, but often his reviews' sentiments for many years now and the only times I've occasionally disagreed is with the place he gives to a movie on his Best Films List -- Monster's Ball and Black Hawk Down in the #1 and 2 spots for 2001 over (#3) In the Bedroom? And how about one of the very best films of last year, a 4-star masterpiece by his own admission, Larry Clark's BULLY getting put in the eleventh place tie as an addendem to his top ten last year? But nevertheless, even when I disagree (rarely), Ebert always makes clear to me and everyone with an attention span of at least a minute that his opinions are genuine and come from a personal place. He's a national treasure.
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Summary: Reviewer For The Masses
Review: Roger Ebert is a movie critic. Gene Siskel was a film critic. Ebert is truely a movie reviewer for the masses. He does a good job pointing the common mind toward the all of the movies made for them to consume. After all, it was Roger who said that "Three Kings" was one of the best movies of 1999 (#3 to be exact). Need I say more? For the rest of us our only filter was Gene Siskel who was a far superior film critic to Ebert, and everyone else for that matter. If you are a movie fan then this book will help you with your movie rental search and keep you from wasting money on the real mind numbing garbage. However, if you like film, search elsewhere.
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Summary: Ebert is the best
Review: Roger Ebert is the best critic around he loves films almost has much as I do. I loved his review of Godzilla, Lost In Space, Armageddon. Screw Leonard Maltin(God, Maltin knows nothing about film what-so-ever. Imean he gives Taxi Driver two and a half stars, read Ebert's for a good review of it.) Ebert knows film very well!!!
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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: Roger Ebert's "Movie Yearbook 1999" is the best guide out there today. I am so tired of Leonard Maltin, a critic who understands nothing of the art of films (he gives three stars to "Brazil" but only one and a half to "Scarface")! Here Ebert shows how one must approach critiquing the art of movies. I myself am a film critic and use Ebert's guide as a sort of book for study. I love his writing style and how he makes clear why a film is bad or good. I also love the fact that he adds intellectuality to his reviews. They are very informative and packed with interesting facts. This is a fabulous book because it also includes essays, interviews, and a list of all films in his previous guide editions along with star rating. I don't care if his reviews are long, I love to read all the interesting comments he puts. Roger Ebert is the greatest film critic around. Leonard Maltin seems like a sissy compared to Ebert and his magnificant mind for film criticsm.
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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: Roger Ebert's "Movie Yearbook 1999" is the best guide out there today. I am so tired of Leonard Maltin, a critic who understands nothing of the art of films (he gives three stars to "Brazil" but only one and a half to "Scarface")! Here Ebert shows how one must approach critiquing the art of movies. I myself am a film critic and use Ebert's guide as a sort of book for study. I love his writing style and how he makes clear why a film is bad or good. I also love the fact that he adds intellectuality to his reviews. They are very informative and packed with interesting facts. This is a fabulous book because it also includes essays, interviews, and a list of all films in his previous guide editions along with star rating. I don't care if his reviews are long, I love to read all the interesting comments he puts. Roger Ebert is the greatest film critic around. Leonard Maltin seems like a sissy compared to Ebert and his magnificant mind for film criticsm.
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Summary: Another Year of Superb Reviews
Review: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 offers another two-and-a-half-year collection (January 2001 to late spring 2003) of the most detailed, penetrating and passionate reviews one could ever ask for by the most celebrated (and probably hardest working) movie reviewer in the US! Interviews, reports on the festival scene, a concise overview of the ten best films (and then some) from 2002, essays, obituaries, a 46-page summary of the ratings of all the films (nearly 4000) that have appeared in all of his compilation volumes for almost two decades! All this at a very reasonable price! This is not a comprehensive volume of film reviews. If Roger Ebert reviewed the nearly 19,000 films reviewed in "Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide" at this length, the volume would be 22,000 pages long. That would also require an additional 24,000 hours of viewing, or about 12 years at 40 hours/week, not to mention an even longer time writing. I suspect that we will not be seeing such a film guide any time soon, although one can dream. I have the same complaint against this volume as I have for the previous ones. Why must we be forced to pay for the 2001 reviews in the 2004 yearbook when we have already paid for them in the 2003 yearbook? I suspect that it is because the publisher wants to be able to charge us for an additional 300 pages. If this is true, it may be a miscalculation, because it does not take into account that this policy will also encourage readers to purchase the yearbooks only every other year. Of course, then they will miss out on all the wonderful extras of that year, nearly 150 pages in 2004 not counting the 46-page cumulative ratings summary. A second complaint is that the reviews never contain information in the opening data summary on the country of origin or original language and title of the film (if not English). This must be guessed at by from the cast and crew names or from possible references within the text of the review. For those of us who love foreign-language films and seek them out this makes it difficult to locate them quickly in the book. Also, since foreign producers sometimes make films in English rather than in their own language (and this practice will occur more frequently in the European Union as it becomes more anglicized), the lack of such language information makes it difficult sometimes to avoid dubbed films when we rent them. In spite of these small misgivings, Roger Ebert's movie yearbooks are magnificent and required reading for true movie lovers.
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Summary: Ebert's big book of movies never disappoints!
Review: The 2003 edition of Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook is the sixth I've purchased and it is sure to exceed every one that came before it. Ebert is a fine writer with the uncanny ability to make every review readable, fun and insightful--whether it's his 5th review or his 5,000th. The extras are what makes these books so enjoyable. From the movie glossary to the index of all his reviews (with star ratings), the book is absolutely jam-packed with information. My personal favorite section is the interviews he does with various directors, actors and movie business people. Ebert always asks the right questions without the usual creampuff fluffery you come to expect from interviews in Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, etc. He pushes their buttons and gets under their skin--and the results are usually pretty entertaining. Of course, the real value of Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook is the reviews. The book contains all the reviews of the past several years, along with handy notes on cast and crew, and, of course, the star ratings.
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Summary: At last, a critic who enjoys movies!
Review: This book is comprehensive, detailed, and humorous. Just the thing I was looking for in a video guide book. This book is one of the best, along with Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2000 and The Manly Movie Guide. For one of the best alternatives to the Internet Movie Database read Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 1999 (not to be confused with version 1998).
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