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- The hosts report Ebert awarded 3½ stars — Bill Simmons
- They contrast his praise of craft with his discomfort at the sustained intensity — Bill Simmons
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- The panel reports Ebert’s four-star rating — Bill Simmons
- They discuss his praise for technical clarity and extraordinary work under pressure — Bill Simmons
- They discuss his sense that reducing space ambitions cost America part of its vision — Bill Simmons
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- Roger Ebert’s two-and-a-half-star rating is reported. — Bill Simmons
- His review calls the movie pleasant and undemanding but questions its necessity and third act. — Bill Simmons
- The panel argues the third act does not lag badly and wants him to enjoy the movie more. — Bill Simmons
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- Roger Ebert’s two-star rating is reported. — Bill Simmons
- Ebert praises Burns’s command of scenes and human detail but calls the film a larger-budget reworking of Brothers McMullen. — Bill Simmons
- The movie is defended as funnier because Mike McGlone plays a broader, more compromised character. — Sean Fennessey
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- Ebert calls the film long, muted, and closer to a eulogy than a celebration. — Van Lathan
- One response strongly disagrees and argues that examining the cost of greatness is the biopic’s purpose. — Van Lathan
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- Ebert is described as hating the film with unusual intensity and questioning what Macaulay Culkin’s parents were thinking. — Bill Simmons
- The panel argues that Ebert often let moral revulsion toward slashers, juvenile comedy, and mean-spirited films outweigh craft. — Sean Fennessey
- The episode states that Ebert awarded one-half star, described as unprecedented across roughly 440 covered movies. — Bill Simmons
- Siskel is kept distinct: his objections focus on plot logic around Mr. Highway and the absent investigation. — Sean Fennessey
- Ebert asks who would want to see the film and calls it creepy and unpleasant because very young children enact horrible behavior. — Bill Simmons
- Ebert proposes the alternate title Henry: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer. — Bill Simmons
- Ebert calls the cliff climax unconvincing, contrived, meretricious, and manipulative; the panel rejects the severity of that judgment. — Bill Simmons
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- The stated review score is three and a half stars. — Bill Simmons
- The quoted review praises the film's many quotable lines and the survival of its fragile comic vision inside an expensive production. — Bill Simmons
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- Ebert awarded Zodiac four stars. — Bill Simmons
- The review compared the film’s procedural texture to All the President’s Men. — Bill Simmons
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- The episode reports a two-star Roger Ebert rating. — Bill Simmons
- His review is summarized as arguing that the film wastes its cast and director and becomes absurd and more laughable than scary at the end. — Bill Simmons
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- Roger Ebert’s review is explicitly three and a half out of four, praising the visible pleasure of the performances; the reported box office did not match the enthusiasm.
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