Like any great rivalry, the competition and, later, the lucrative partnership between Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has been dissected and ...

Roger Ebert is leaving the balcony — but hinting that he’s not finished with television. The famed film critic announced Monday that he is cutting ties with the nationally syndicated program he and ...

Roger Ebert said he's cutting ties with the TV show that he and Gene Siskel made famous, a day after co-host Richard Roeper announced his own exit. By The Associated Press CHICAGO — Chicago Sun-Times ...

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped ...

It is a sad day indeed, it feels like the end of a legacy. The end of an institution. AND WAS IT ALL BECAUSE OF THE DAMN THUMBS? Both film critics Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert have left At the ...

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper, left, and film critic Roger Ebert are shown following a ceremony in which Ebert was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

THE balcony is closed, this time for good. After nearly three decades, “At the Movies,” the syndicated television program that introduced many viewers to the film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, ...