Legendary Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead At 70 | Talking Points Memo

Updated: 3:54 p.m. ET

CHICAGO (AP) — Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who become the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 70.


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