Roger Ebert

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'Roger Ebert is a Chicago Sun-Times film critic, and is the only author to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism. He has been writing about film for over forty years; in the 1980s he began co-hosting a weekly movie review show with Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune. When Siskel died a few years ago, he was replaced by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper. Every year Ebert's review books are published. Ebert has also had published a book of movie cliches and a book of essays about great films, as well as a book of essays about films he hated.

Ebert also wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".