Ebert was one of the last real effigies of good reviewing. The folks who took over after he died haven't really done his name justice. That said, I think "revi

Ebert was one of the last real effigies of good reviewing. The folks who took over after he died haven't really done his name justice. That said, I think "reviewing" took on much more than what Roger Ebert stood for. I don't think he saw himself as a gatekeeper of quality as much as someone who could put the summary of the experience of watching a movie in text quite succinctly. Nowadays with things like rotten tomatoes, it literally is a rating, and it's definitional gatekeeping.