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Roger Ebert's Great Movies A free way to build your virtual collection, make lists, and share them. It’s your new home on Criterion.com. Learn More » Roger Ebert's Great Movies by lifeless1 Created 04/22/13 33 comments ★ 131 There are many quality collections of the best films ever made, but no other felt as comprehensive and naturally chosen as Ebert's "Great Movies." He started the list simply by picking a film (the first was Casablanca) then writing about it, choosing a new film every other week or so; just picking another film he fancied writing about. Before he died he wrote about three-hundred-sixty separate entries and, unsurprisingly many of them saw Criterion releases. In alphabetical order, accompanied by Ebert's words about the film: 1. 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet “The film shows us nothing of the trial itself except for the judge's perfunctory, almost bored, charge to ...