Ebert has devolved into assessing if the film has the correct amount of libneral content.
i.e. Gay characters, ‘green’ plot, republican bashing, anti-smoking, obama worship...
So true. Ebert has devolved into the typical left-wing hack who uses his “reviews” to trash morality and patriotism. I guess we shouldn’t expect greatness or judgement from the “screenwriter” who gave us “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”. At least he stopped writing for film after that.
I still read Ebert’s reviews because if the film has nothing to do with politics, he writes a decent review, in fact an excellent one.
If Roger Ebert gives anything 4 stars, I avoid it. It is always because it has some liberal bent or is directed or starring one of his favorite libs.
It is not either an evolution or a devolution. Despite what the author states, Ebert’s political prism is not at all new.
I was 2 years behind Roger at the UofI-Champaign. Thanx to an idiot friend who had a crush on him (!), I was dragged to Thursday lunch meetings of Americans for Democratic Action, which he headed. He was a full-blown leftist who talked incessantly, even in 1961-1962.
I have a lot of sympathy for Ebert these days, as he is suffering from the ravages of a nasty cancer. I will acknowledge his spirit, which appears indomitable, as he still manages to write and publish. But I will not accept that he is just a film enthusiast who has lately inserted his politics into his criticism. He was qualified for nothing else and likely got the job by virtue of who he knew and the purity of his ideology.