Ebert ended his association with the show in July 2008, but in February 2009 he stated that he and Roeper would continue their work on a new show.

According to Ebert, filming ended after a day and a half when the electricians walked off the set after McLaren was unable to pay them.

In an 1990 Siskel and Ebert special on Cruise, Ebert added one more ingredient to the formula, the " Dying Friend ", referencing how in almost all the Cruise formula films, his friend / colleague had almost ended up sick or dying in the course of the film to present an emotional challenge for the Cruise character.

On April 13, 2008, Scott wrote that his " experiences guest critic ... ended when Michael Phillips of The Tribune was made Mr. Roeper's permanent foil ..." Phillips remained as Roeper's regular cohost until Roeper and Ebert ended their relationship with the series in August 2008.

" Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times gave a more lukewarm review, but ended positively: " Still, Married to the Mob is loaded with wonderful offbeat touches ... most assuredly doesn't lack soul.

Only once during his long association with Roger Ebert did Gene Siskel ever change his vote on a movie.

In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert states: " Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm.

The Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert violently suppressed workers ' uprisings with the help of Gustav Noske and Reichswehr General Groener, and tolerated the paramilitary Freikorps forming all across Germany.

Even provisional President Friedrich Ebert contributed to the myth when he saluted returning veterans with the oration that " no enemy has vanquished you " ( kein Feind hat euch überwunden!

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

* An article by critic Roger Ebert describing his involvement with science fiction fanzines in the 1950s.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.

" Movie critic Roger Ebert compared the film with a later remake:

Although movie critic Roger Ebert was not impressed with most of the other actors, he writes in his review, " ... we discover once again what a warm and engaging actor Peter Falk is.

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

Ebert concludes his review with the following line: " Every time I see the film, I feel a great sadness, that a human imagination could be so limited that it sees its own extinction as a victory.

Film critic Roger Ebert speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( in which the samurai shaves off his topknot, a sign of honor among samurai, in order to pose as a monk to rescue a boy from a kidnapper ) could be the origin of the practice, now common in action movies, of introducing the main hero with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot.

* 1957 Interbau Apartment blocks, Hansaviertel, Berlin, Germany, with The Architects ' Collaborative and Wils Ebert

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.

Roger Ebert awarded the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, writing: " It is a well-directed film, because Besson has a natural gift for plunging into drama with a charged-up visual style.

Roger Ebert stated, " This is one of the smartest and most provocative of science fiction films, a thriller with ideas.

Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his Man with No Name character in the Dollars westerns and praised the film's atmosphere.

Roger Ebert wrote, " Streep and Eastwood weave a spell, and it is based on that particular knowledge of love and self that comes with middle age.

The film met with generally positive reviews ; Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars and described it as a " very good film ... with moments evoking great emotion ", while Variety Todd McCarthy wrote, " Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.

Ebert is known for his film review column ( appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online ) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel.

In 1982, the critics moved to a syndicated commercial television show named At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and in 1986 they left to create Siskel & Ebert & The Movies with Buena Vista Television ( part of the Walt Disney Company ).

Ebert reiterated this plan after Disney announced the last episode of the program would air in August 2010.

The demotion occurred after Siskel and longtime Chicago film critic colleague Roger Ebert decided to shift the production of their weekly movie-review show — then known as At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and later known as Siskel & Ebert & The Movies — from Tribune Entertainment to The Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Television unit.

Film critic Roger Ebert, who normally disdains any attempt to keep films from any audience, has supported the non-release position, claiming that most Disney films become a part of the consciousness of American children, who take films more literally than do adults.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four stars out of four, and noted that throughout Fantasia, " Disney pushes the edges of the envelope ".

Tron received enthusiastic praise from film critic Roger Ebert, became a cult favorite and turned out — many years later — to have a greater influence on animation ( at Disney and elsewhere ) than expected.

In 1986, Siskel and Ebert left Tribune Broadcasting to have their show produced by the syndication arm of The Walt Disney Company.

The series itself began in 1986 as Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, when Siskel and Ebert signed with Buena Vista Entertainment, the television division of Disney.

On August 20, 2007, Disney pulled the thumbs system from the program during contractual negotiations with Ebert over his involvement with the program.

Disney stated that Ebert forced the program to do so.

In a statement to Poynter Online, Ebert said that Disney ordered the thumbs removed from the show.

During that time, he was tapped to audition as a possible movie critic replacement when Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert left Chicago PBS for Disney syndication.

In a July 1, 2010, blog entry, Ebert maintained his skepticism that video games cannot ever be art in principle, but conceded that he should not have expressed this opinion without being more familiar with the actual experience of playing them.

On July 1, Ebert was hospitalized in serious condition after his carotid artery burst near the surgery site and he " came within a breath of death ".

Each year since 1999, except in 2008, Ebert has published Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook, a collection of all of his movie reviews from the previous two and a half years ( for example, the 2011 edition, ISBN 978-0-7407-9769-9, covers January 2008 – July 2010 ), as well as essays and other writings.

Friedrich Adolf Ebert ( July 9, 1791 – November 13, 1834 ) was a German bibliographer and librarian.

Roger Ebert in his July 13, 1990 Chicago Sun-Times review wrote: "' Quick Change ' is a funny but not an inspired comedy.