![]() ![]() ![]() The Great Movies IV is the fourth-and final-collection of Roger Ebert’s essays, comprising sixty-two reviews of films ranging from the silent era to the recent past. Although the world lost one of its most important critics far too early, Ebert lives on in the minds of moviegoers today, who continually find themselves debating what he might have thought about a current movie. But Ebert went well beyond a mere “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Readers could always sense the man behind the words, a man with interests beyond film and a lifetime’s distilled wisdom about the larger world. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later Richard Roeper about the movies they loved and loathed. No film critic has ever been as influential-or as beloved- as Roger Ebert. ![]()
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