''RogerEbert.com'' is an American
film review
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website that archives reviews written by film critic
Roger Ebert for the ''
Chicago Sun-Times
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'' and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', was launched in 2002.
Ebert handpicked writers from around the world to contribute to the website. After Ebert died in 2013, the website was relaunched under Ebert Digital, a partnership founded between Ebert, his wife
Chaz, and friend Josh Golden.
Background
Two months after Ebert's death,
Chaz Ebert hired film and television critic
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz (born December 26, 1968) is an American film and television critic, author and film-maker.
Career
Matt Zoller Seitz is editor-at-large at RogerEbert.com, and the television critic for '' New York'' magazine and Vulture.com, as ...
as editor-in-chief for the website because his
IndieWire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Holl ...
blog PressPlay shared multiple contributors with RogerEbert.com, and because both websites promoted each other's content.
''
The Dissolve
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''s Noel Murray described the website's collection of Ebert reviews as "an invaluable resource, both for getting some front-line perspective on older movies, and for getting a better sense of who Ebert was." Murray said the website included reviews Ebert rarely discussed in conversation, such as those for ''
Chelsea Girls
''Chelsea Girls'' is a 1966 American experimental underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. The film was Warhol's first major commercial success after a long line of avant-garde art films (both feature-length and short). It w ...
'' (1966) and ''
Good Times'' (1967), written when Ebert was in his twenties. R. Kurt Osenlund of ''
Slant
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Bias
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Technical
* Slant range, in telecommunications, the line-of-sight distance between two points which are not at the same level
* Slant d ...
'' said in 2013 that other contributors (including Seitz, Sheila O'Malley, and Odie Henderson) had "a lot of first-person narrative" in their work like Ebert did, adding, "but there are other contributors, like Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, who don’t do so much of that. The overall diversity makes the site a kind of
artists' collective."
RogerEbert.com has routinely hosted a "Women Writer's Week" in honor of
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with ...
, featuring content from female contributors for the entire week. Following the
2016 United States presidential election
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, the "Women Writer's Week" in 2017 was described by ''
Observer
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Observer may also refer to:
Computer science and information theory
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* State observer in co ...
'' to be "overtly political thanks to President
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
". Chaz Ebert said the
2017 Women's March helped motivate female contributors to contribute their perspective to film and politics.
References
External links
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American film review websites
Roger Ebert
Siskel and Ebert