{{Redirect|RogerEbert|the film critic|Roger Ebert}}{{Short description|American film review website}} {{Italic title}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox website | name = RogerEbert.com | logo = | logo_size = | logo_caption = <!-- or: | logocaption = --> | logo_alt = | screenshot = RogerEbertcom front page.png | screenshot_size = | caption = | screenshot_alt = | collapsible = <!-- set as "on", "y", etc, otherwise omit/leave blank --> | collapsetext = <!-- collapsible area's heading (default "Screenshot"); omit/leave blank if collapsible not set --> | url = {{URL|https://www.rogerebert.com}} | commercial = <!-- "Yes", "No" or leave blank --> | type = Film review | registration = | language = English | country_of_origin = United States | num_users = | content_license = <!-- or: | content_licence = --> | owner = Ebert Digital LLC | author = <!-- or: creator / authors / creators --> | editor = <!-- or: | editors = --> | launch_date = <!-- {{start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} --> | revenue = | issn = <!-- ISSN, e.g. 1085-6706 (automatically linked to http://www.WorldCat.org) --> | oclc = <!-- OCLC number, useful where an ISSN has not been allocated (automatically linked to http://www.WorldCat.org) --> | current_status = Active | footnotes = | background = <!-- for collapsetext heading; default grey (gainsboro) --> | programming_language = | founder = Roger Ebert }}
'''''RogerEbert.com''''' is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', was launched in 2002.<ref name=Guernica>{{cite magazine |last1=Miller |first1=Quenton |title=Roger Ebert, Wikipedia Editor |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/roger-ebert-wikipedia-editor/ |magazine=Guernica |date=February 23, 2017 |access-date=20 May 2021 |archive-date=26 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426010832/https://www.guernicamag.com/roger-ebert-wikipedia-editor/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ebert handpicked writers from around the world to contribute to the website. After Ebert died in 2013, the website was relaunched under Ebert Digital, a partnership founded between Ebert, his wife Chaz, and friend Josh Golden.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hernandez |first=Brian Anthony |date=April 9, 2013 |title=Roger Ebert's Website for Film Reviews Gets Makeover |url=https://www.mashable.com/2013/04/09/rogerebert-website-redesign/#zqJcdNSqksqw |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416041317/https://mashable.com/2013/04/09/rogerebert-website-redesign/#zqJcdNSqksqw |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date=June 22, 2017 |work=Mashable.com}}</ref>
==Background== Two months after Ebert's death, Chaz Ebert hired film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz as editor-in-chief for the website<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Abramovitch |first=Seth |date=June 4, 2013 |title=Matt Zoller Seitz Named Editor of RogerEbert.com |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-zoller-seitz-named-editor-562541 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916230740/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-zoller-seitz-named-editor-562541 |archive-date=September 16, 2017 |access-date=June 22, 2017 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref> because his IndieWire blog ''PressPlay'' shared multiple contributors with RogerEbert.com, and because both websites promoted each other's content.<ref name="osenlund">{{cite news | last=Osenlund | first=R. Kurt | url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/one-month-later-catching-up-with-rogerebertcom-editor-matt-zoller-seitz/P2 | title=One Month Later: Catching Up with RogerEbert.com Editor-in-Chief Matt Zoller Seitz | work=Slant | date=July 2, 2013 | access-date=June 22, 2017 | archive-date=October 20, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020040829/https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/one-month-later-catching-up-with-rogerebertcom-editor-matt-zoller-seitz/P2 | url-status=live }}</ref>
''The Dissolve''{{'}}s Noel Murray described the website's collection of Ebert reviews as "an invaluable resource, both for getting some front-line perspective on older movies, and for getting a better sense of who Ebert was." Murray said the website included reviews Ebert rarely discussed in conversation, such as those for ''Chelsea Girls'' (1966) and ''Good Times'' (1967), written when Ebert was in his twenties.<ref>{{cite news |last=Murray |first=Noel |date=June 30, 2014 |title=Roger Ebert's oldest, least-read reviews reveal the writer he'd become |url=https://www.thedissolve.com/features/exposition/638-roger-eberts-oldest-least-republished-reviews-are-/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209202155/https://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/638-roger-eberts-oldest-least-republished-reviews-are-/ |archive-date=December 9, 2015 |access-date=June 22, 2017 |work=The Dissolve}}</ref> R. Kurt Osenlund of ''Slant'' said in 2013 that other contributors (including Seitz, Sheila O'Malley, and Odie Henderson) had "a lot of first-person narrative" in their work like Ebert did, adding, "but there are other contributors, like Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, who don't do so much of that. The overall diversity makes the site a kind of artists' collective."<ref name="osenlund" />
RogerEbert.com has routinely hosted a "Women Writer's Week" in honor of Women's History Month, featuring content from female contributors for the entire week.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bonazzo |first=John |date=March 31, 2016 |title=RogerEbert.com Holds Women Writer's Week to Celebrate Diversity |url=https://www.observer.com/2016/03/rogerebert-com-holds-women-writers-week-to-celebrate-diversity/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130071944/https://observer.com/2016/03/rogerebert-com-holds-women-writers-week-to-celebrate-diversity/ |archive-date=January 30, 2024 |access-date=June 22, 2017 |work=Observer}}</ref> Following the 2016 United States presidential election, the "Women Writer's Week" in 2017 was described by ''Observer'' to be "overtly political thanks to President Donald Trump". Chaz Ebert said the 2017 Women's March helped motivate female contributors to contribute their perspective to film and politics.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bonazzo |first=John |date=March 27, 2017 |title=How a Movie Review Site Is Using Women Writers to Protest Trump |url=https://www.observer.com/2017/03/roger-ebert-women-writers-week-trump/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130071944/https://observer.com/2017/03/roger-ebert-women-writers-week-trump/ |archive-date=January 30, 2024 |access-date=June 27, 2017 |work=Observer}}</ref>
== Year end lists == Roger Ebert compiled "best of the year" movie lists beginning in 1967 until 2012. Since Ebert died, the practice has continued since 2014 with his website. The primary contributors do a Borda count where each critic ranks films, with ten points for the first-placed film to one point for the tenth-placed film. The scores are compiled and best film of the year is based on poll results.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ebert's 10 Best Lists: 1967–present |url=https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041215/COMMENTARY/41215001/1023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908200137/https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20041215%2FCOMMENTARY%2F41215001%2F1023 |archive-date=September 8, 2006 |work=Chicago Sun-Times}}</ref>
{{div col|colwidth=20em}} * 2014: ''Under the Skin''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2014|title=The Ten Best Films of 2014|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 17, 2014|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> * 2015: ''Mad Max: Fury Road''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2015|title=The Ten Best Films of 2015|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 17, 2015|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=January 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117164812/https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2015|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2016: ''Moonlight''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2016|title=The Ten Best Films of 2016|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 16, 2016|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703220754/https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2016|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2017: ''Lady Bird''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2017|title=The Ten Best Films of 2017|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 13, 2017|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> * 2018: ''Roma''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2018|title=The Ten Best Films of 2018|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 11, 2018|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> * 2019: ''The Irishman''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2019|title=The Ten Best Films of 2019|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 11, 2019|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> * 2020: ''Small Axe'': ''Lovers Rock''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2020|title=The Ten Best Films of 2020|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 14, 2020|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> * 2021: ''The Power of the Dog''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2021|title=The Ten Best Films of 2021|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 14, 2021|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> * 2022: ''The Banshees of Inisherin''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2022|title=The Ten Best Films of 2022|website=RogerEbert.com|date=December 14, 2022|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=December 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216111332/https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2022|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2023: ''Killers of the Flower Moon''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2023|title=The Ten Best Films of 2023|date=December 11, 2023|website=RogerEbert.com|access-date=August 8, 2025}}</ref> * 2024: ''The Brutalist''<ref>{{cite web |date=December 10, 2024 |title=The Best Films of 2024 |work=RogerEbert.com |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-best-films-of-2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213031824/https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-best-films-of-2024 |archive-date=December 13, 2024}}</ref> * 2025: ''One Battle After Another''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-ten-best-films-of-2025|title=The Ten Best Films of 2025|work=RogerEbert.com|date=December 9, 2025|access-date=December 30, 2025}}</ref> {{div col end}}
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==External links== *{{Official|https://www.rogerebert.com/}}
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