Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002 [Paperback]

Roger Ebert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 12, 2001 | Series: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook

When America wants to know movies, it turns to Roger Ebert, the only film critic to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002 presents all of Ebert's reviews from January 1999 to mid-June 2001. This annual volume-required reading for film fans-also contains all of his interviews and essays for the year, the biweekly "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," his daily notebooks from major film festivals, plus a list of all movies and star ratings ever appearing in an edition of this annual collection.

Product Details

• Paperback: 896 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 12, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740718614
• ISBN-13: 978-0740718618
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,137,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, Common Sense Reviews, June 14, 2002

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George Buttner "Agent0042" (Dayton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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I picked this up not necessarily expecting much out of it, but it turns out to be a great read. This book is good just for general reading, or for getting a review of a movie you might want to see. Ebert's a critic with his own opinions and so obviously you might not agree with everything he has to say, nor should you. But whether his comments are positive ("Traffic" [4 Stars]: "powerful precisely because it doesn't preach.") or negative ('Inspector Gadget' [1 and 1/2 stars]: "would it have killed them to add a real 'Inspector Gadget' cartoon as a warm-up and scene-setter'), Ebert often seems to be right on the money.

As if all of this weren't enough, the book is elevated with two interesting sections in the back: "Film Festivals," a review of Film Festivals that Ebert has attended and "Questions for the Movie Man," a collection of Ebert's question and answer columns.

Finally, at the end, there's a list of the star ratings Ebert has given for every review that's appeared in any of his books.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thanks roger, March 20, 2002

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J. F Treml "no_jack_no" (philly) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002 (Paperback)

i have to recommend this book very highly.
back in college i used mr. ebert's one paragraph film description of badlands as the basis of a paper for my existentionalism in film class. without seeing the movie i received a high grade with a note from the professor saying that he was very impressed with my work and wished that he could give a higher grade than an A.

thanks a lot roger

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roger Ebert is back!, December 28, 2001

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Stephen Verhaeren (Palos Park, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002 (Paperback)

If you might not have gotten your hands on Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001, or an earlier Roger Bbert's books in which the reviews from The Chicago Suntimes, get this book. Now you can read reviews that Roger Ebert has written from January 1, 1999 to June 30, 2001. You might have missed reading the reviews in the paper, but you can go back and read them on-line if you want a movie from after 1984. And Ebert's review of 3,000 Miles To Graceland is in here. Alone with the Grinch, Shrek, Stuart Little, Pearl Harbor and any other movies tht are not from before 1999. If you don't get the Chicago Suntimes, but have the net, you can read Ebert's reviews on-line. If you have kids, the book has Ebert's reviews of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Trumpet of the Swan, Shrek, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Little Vampire, Doug's First Movie. Just to name a few, or if you like to watch kid's movies. But please don't let them watch Pg-13 movies, until they are 13, and R rated movies until they are 17. Keep up the good job Mr. Ebert.