Rendering - Week 12

This article, which is called "Roger Ebert: The Ultimate Film Enthusiast" was published www.metacritic.com site by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor

Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor and Marc Doyle, Metacritic Games Editor on  April 9, 2013 and tells us about Roger Ebert, his enormous leap in the art of writing reviews and progressive style of judging movies.

The authors point out , that the longtime Chicago Sun-Times film critic, who died last week at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer, used a four-star grading scale in his written reviews (as opposed to the binary thumbs up/down system that he and fellow critic Gene Siskel made famous on their At the Movies broadcasts). And it’s rather important to mention, that Similarly, three out of every four Ebert reviews were positive—that's over 3,000 films in our database alone. Moreover, his average grade was 71 (or nearly 3 out of 4 stars on his scale), over 12 points higher than the typical critic's average score.

In addition to that, the authors say, that  Ebert’s tastes ran both broad and deep, and his endorsements carried more weight because his writing was always approachable while also revealing an extensive knowledge and love of film. And of course, he was the rare critic that was both populist and Pulitzer winner, impressed equally by stunning, effects-heavy visual spectacles and more cerebral, dialogue-heavy affairs.

Analyzing the situation it’s necessary to admit, that judging from the response to his death last week, few critics over the past 30 years have influenced as many people and not only was Ebert a truly invaluable supporter of smaller films that might not otherwise get noticed, but he influenced a new generation of writers to enter the field of film and television criticism.

Moreover, the reader should not forget that author clearly gives us a thought, that Ebert's opinions were much closer to scores given by Metacritic users than to those provided by other professionals. In both his grades and his writing, it seems, Ebert was able to speak both to and for the average movie fan, perhaps more so than his contemporaries.

To draw the conclusion, the authors tell us , Roger was a friend of their site colleagues, and a great friend and supporter of Metacritic over the past dozen years and the man who reached out to them to make a few specific recommendations on how we could improve our scoring system.

In my personal opinion, Roger Ebert was on of the most outstanding movie reviewer in the world, as he was educated and smart enough to dig some holes in the film, to understand its ideas and meanings. The man of open soul and clear emotions, helping different people around to world to touch this fragile glass of filming art in the world of darkness and dirty business.