Director: Steve Jamesl Starring: Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Ramin Bahrani, Ava DuVernay, Stephen Stanton; Running time: 121 mins; Certificate: 15 Legendary ...

To call Roger Ebert one of the great populist film critics is to damn him with faint praise. Though he took pride in working for the scrappier of the two Chicago dailies, the Sun-Times, and though we ...

After 46 years of “thumbs-up” or “-down” to every crumb, slab or sliver of cinematic art, it seems only fitting that late Chicago film critic Roger Ebert is the subject of a feature-length documentary ...

Roger Ebert's new memoir does him the favor of undoing the damage of popular deification to reintroduce you to a more complex and thoughtful writer. The biggest threat to Roger Ebert, the writer, is ...

It was the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius who wittily offered what once flourished as a cultural law: No one ever erected a statue to a critic. No more. The late Roger Ebert has forever erased ...

Filmmaker Steve James and Chaz Ebert tell Kim Masters about the journey of adapting Roger Ebert’s memoir, ‘Life Itself’ to a documentary. James figured finding funding for such a film would be no ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Like the best movies to which Roger Ebert would give his iconic “thumbs up”, Life Itself — a moving tribute to the film critic’s life and work — touches the soul with its willingness to candidly ...

"I was born inside the movie of my life." Those words open the new memoir Life Itself from the film critic Roger Ebert, who has made movies his life for more than four decades now. He and his sparring ...

The film tells the life story of renowned film fritic Roger Ebert and is directed by Steven James, who also directed the acclaimed 1994 Chicago film ''Hoop Dreams,'' a flim Ebert championed. Oscar ...