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The Big Picture Roger Ebert is easily the most famous, and likely one of the most important film critics that ever lived. While Pauline Kael is often cited as the first mainstream critic who truly understood film as an art form, Ebert and his At The Movies co-host Gene Siskel managed to discuss cinema in a way that appealed to widespread audiences.
Knowing PG-13ActionAdventure Sci-FiThriller Released in 2009, Knowing is a Science Fiction and Thriller starring Nicolas Cage. The story, from Ryne Douglas Pearson, sees humanity "knowing" when upcoming diasters and apocalyptic events will happen thanks to a strange piece of paper covered with numbers.
While he had “logical questions that are sort of beside the point,” Ebert argued that the film “works as science fiction, which often changes one coordinate in an otherwise logical world just to see what might happen.” Given that the premise and the world of the film are entirely fictional, Ebert wasn’t expecting Knowing to be 100% accurate when it came to numerology and the origin of solar flares.
Ebert’s passionate defense of Knowing speaks to the importance of having a deep critical discussion about high-profile releases. It’s unfortunate that in today’s cinematic ecosystem, many potential moviegoers determine whether or not to see an upcoming release based purely on the score that it receives on an aggregator like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, or IMDb.
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