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It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
Roger Ebert
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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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Film theory has nothing to do with film.
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All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
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It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real.
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.
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There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
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That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
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Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.
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To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?
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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.
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I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
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Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.
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'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
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There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
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I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.
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The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
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Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
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