It’s hard to sum up one man’s achievements in any article or post. It’s even harder if that man is Roger Ebert, who in no particular order was a critic, TV personality, social-media guru, blogger, scholar, screenwriter and advocate.
Still, there are some very quantifiable ways that Ebert, who died last week at age 70, changed film and film journalism. That’s true in very noticeable realms – reviewing and supporting movies, and adding a remarkable voice to the criticism canon – but in more subtle ones as well.
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