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Writing his personal list of what he deemed the best of all time, Roger Ebert additionally curated a class of movies across the decades that he believed were Great Movies. Those films earned a second review with a Great Movie badge, many times earning a higher star rating than his first published review. Ebert's selection of Great Movies from the 1990s includes Oscar legends, comedies, and Shakespearean adaptations.
The four-star rated movie thrives off of Murray's careful attention to the character without making him insufferable to the audience and the Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin-written screenplay that negotiated the limits of the narrative. Ebert describes Groundhog Day as a movie with an effortless, inevitable genius that"you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is.
✕ Remove Ads The movie's glory and success hinges on McKellen's deeply multi-faceted performance. Ebert compared McKellen's Richard to Hannibal Lecter, a seductive predator the audience knows better than his fellow characters onscreen. Maintaining Shakespeare's dialogue and cadence created a line of continuity and integrity that could have otherwise been botched in the hands of a different filmmaker and leading role.
From the cinematography to the writing, and the performance execution in between, The Shawshank Redemption is a movie that completely absorbs the viewer for Ebert, breaking the cinematic barrier so effortlessly that audiences forget they are watching. The film is yet another one of the classics that the critic discovered a deeper appreciation for after watching it again.
Ebert meticulously details how Hopkin's iconic portrayal of Lecter made him not only a likeable character despite his proclivities but compares him to movie monsters of the past like Nosferatu, King Kong, Norman Bates, and Frankenstein."They behave according to their natures, and they are misunderstood," describes Ebert. Lecter's stillness is terrifying and his affection for Clarice provided audiences with a mind-bending balance that Ebert hoped would immortalize the film.
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