Siskel and ebert top movies

Before audiences had access to innumerate voices and professed authority on cinema via the internet, they relied on the thumb gauge of film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

Siskel and ebert top movies

It might surprise some fans to learn that the passionate pair were journalists, not movie buffs. The non-cinephiles began their movie-reviewing careers as rival critics at Chicago newspapers, with Siskel writing for The Chicago Tribune and Ebert for The Chicago Sun-Times.

Though Ebert had loftier career plans, in 1975, he was the first critic to receive the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, sealing his fate.