Roger Ebert

I'll best honest, I didn't know Roger Ebert. Sure, I knew of him, but wasn't a follower of his. I didn't care if he thought a movie was good or bad. I didn't watch his show. I do know that he had one of the coolest jobs in the world and definitely struggled at the end of his life. All too recently, they're showing pictures of what he looked like near the end of his days, after surgery missing his

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70, leaving a massive void in the world of film analysis and criticism that is unlikely to be filled anytime soon. His impact on his field and how people watch and talk about movies cannot be underestimated. However, there's a reason he was the most influential and widely read critics of all time: he was a damn great writer.

Just days after announcing a leave of absence from writing to deal with a recurrence of cancer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported this afternoon that legendary movie critic Roger Ebert has died.