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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002

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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.

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

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.

I usually enjoy Roger Ebert's movie reviews, but quite a few reviews in this book evidenced what can only be called stupidity. Although he understands the basic necessities of movie entertainment (dramatic tension, forward movement, character development etc.), so does every college drama graduate. The problem is that Ebert enjoys an amazing blindness to complex emotions and irony, and his sense of humor is decidedly slapstick. Basically, he reviews movies on the mid-level-college-freshman-with-a-110-IQ level. If you share these characteristics and preferences, his opinions may appeal to you. If not, the book is just another proof that "there's no accounting for taste."

This book is written by the crtitic who is so stupid that he thought Moulin Rough will win the Academy Award fot the best picture of the year. This would tell you exactly how valuable his film reviews would be. It will be much better if he does not include his stupid opinions in his reviews at all. Better spend your money on something else!

Please do not write things you don't know about. This guy knows very little about movies and pretend to be an expert. Too much nonsense in the book! The way he see movies is just like the way a child see. Don't waste your money on this crap!

Pulitzer prize winning author of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Roger Ebert won't be remembered much longer then his late cohort Gene Siskel when all that coagulated pasta around his midsection catches up with him. Franchise greedy distributors, who often have the same owners of the newspaper/TV. media who give critics their free tickets slather quotes from Ebert and his one liner reviews on their products as if they were apologizing for it. Least buyer resistance conscience studios find Ebert's politically correct social palliatives congenial to their profits.