Roger Ebert's four-star reviews of the 2000s

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This is a chronological (roughly) list of all of the movies that Roger Ebert has given a four-star review thus far in this decade. Let’s hope they won’t be the last!

Movies that were released as more than one version are given here as the version closest to what Mr. Ebert reviewed. For the most part, that means the version not promoted as an "unrated" edition is the one listed. In a few cases, that means listing the IMAX edition of a movie instead of a widely-available video version.

Eros is an anthology of three short films. Mr. Ebert’s review (http://xrl.us/bjxwo) gave Wong Kar-Wai’s "The Hand" four stars, Steven Soderbergh’s "Equilibrium" three stars, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s "The Dangerous Thread of Things" one star.

Note that in 2006, Roger Ebert’s website began publishing reviews written by the site’s editor-in-chief, Jim Emerson. Those reviews are not included here.

(Last update: Apr. 23, 2008. Unchanged as of Apr. 29.)

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    42 Up

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  2. 2.
    Almost Famous

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    American Movie
    by Chris Smith (II)

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    Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
    by Joel Coen

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    The Contender

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    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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    High Fidelity

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    Topsy-Turvy
    by Mike Leigh

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    The Trial

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    The War Zone
    by Tim Roth

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  13. 14.
    Wonder Boys

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    You Can Count on Me

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  15. 16.
    13 Conversations About One Thing
    by Jill Sprecher

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    24 Hour Party People
    by Michael Winterbottom

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    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)

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    All Or Nothing (2002)
    by Mike Leigh

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    Apocalypse Now Redux

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    Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience
    by Ron Howard

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  21. 22.
    Auto Focus
    by Paul Schrader

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    Beauty and the Beast [IMAX]
    by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

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    Black Hawk Down
    by Ridley Scott

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  24. 26.
    Bully

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  25. 27.
    Changing Lanes

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    Cinema Paradiso - The New Version
    by Giuseppe Tornatore

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    E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
    by Steven Spielberg

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    Far from Heaven

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    The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
    by Zacharias Kunuk

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    Fellini - Satyricon
    by Federico Fellini

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    Femme Fatale
    by Brian De Palma

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    Frailty (Ws)

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    George Washington - Criterion Collection
    by David Gordon Green

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    Ghost World
    by Terry Zwigoff

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    The Gleaners and I

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    Gosford Park

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    The Grey Zone
    by Tim Blake Nelson

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    In the Bedroom
    by Todd Field

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  39. 43.
    Innocence
    by Paul Cox

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    Invincible

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    Ivansxtc
    by Bernard Rose

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  42. 46.
    Lovely & Amazing (Ws Sub)
    by Nicole Holofcener

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  43. 47.
    The Man from Elysian Fields
    by George Hickenlooper

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    Metropolis
    by Rintaro

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    Monster's Ball
    by Marc Forster

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Comments

Ben
Long Island

ratatouille — 27 weeks ago

i am pretty sure he rated this 4 stars.


Larry Gilbert
San Diego

Ebert seeing stars? — 34 weeks ago

Holy cow. Roger Ebert published four-star reviews for six movies all in one day:

That must be unprecedented for him. Heck, that must be unprecedented for any critic.

If you count his four-star review for the remake of 3:10 to Yuma, that makes seven four-star reviews within a week!


Untitled — 1 year ago

Yeah, I think he specifically reviewed the IMAX films in those cases. I deleted The Descent because that was an Emerson review.


Chris Nolan.ca
Toronto

Why the Imax versions? — 1 year ago

I’m curious (without going and looking for myself) where the IMAX versions of the films added to the list because those were the ones Ebert specifically gave 4 stars to?


Larry Gilbert
San Diego

Roger Ebert vs. Jim Emerson — 1 year ago

Someone caught this before I did! When adding new four-star reviews, take care to ensure that they were indeed written by Roger Ebert, not Jim Emerson (who writes some reviews for rogerebert.com). Thanks!