In one of the more touching and heartfelt moments of Friday night's telecast of the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards, legendary movie critic Roger Ebert was honored with a standing ovation.

CHICAGO, April 26 (UPI) -- Movie critic Roger Ebert, battling back against cancer, received a standing ovation at his ninth annual film festival Wednesday in Urbana, Ill. Unable to speak because ...

Roger Ebert News from United Press International.If it were up to me, you would never have heard about the incident ... when a fellow critic whacked me with a rolled-up program or a festival ...

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert called one of the most disparaged Star Wars movies an "astonishing achievement." What influenced his opinion?

Roger Ebert wrote simply, abundantly, gorgeously — and on deadline for 46 years at the Chicago Sun-Times. Over the years, his work reminded us that empathy is the grace note of a good life, not ...

DGA Awards: Brad Pitt, Jodie Foster, Christian Bale, and why a room full of directors gave Roger Ebert a standing ovationThe evening started off well, with an amiable Jon Cryer stepping in to ...

But Ebert had a more important partnership: his relationship with his wife, Chaz Ebert. It’s highlighted in “Life Itself,” out Friday, a new documentary about Ebert, who died in April 2013.

Certainly Roger Ebert will be remembered for many things. Winning an unprecedented Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for film criticism is just one of them. For me, though, beyond that distinction Roger was ...

The death of Roger Ebert is a blow to movies, not just movie criticism. He energized the medium by taking it on full force, two-fisted, making it better by not letting the suits get away with ...

Roger loved Twitter. “Roger was always an early adapter of technology, but he resisted going on Twitter or Facebook for some reason, I don’t know why. So I kept after him.

Roger Ebert is one of the latter. That rarest of creatures — a film critic everyone knows — he really enjoys being Roger Ebert. This pleasure comes through in his new memoir, Life Itself.