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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
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Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
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[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
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In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'
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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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I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.
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We laugh, that we may not cry.
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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
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Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
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While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.
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A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
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Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
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Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.
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And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
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I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
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If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.
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