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Roger Ebert's Greatest Scathing Reviews

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 Roger Ebert's Greatest Scathing Reviews  There will never be a film critic as celebrated and highly revered as the great Roger Ebert (1942-2013), the Pulitzer Prize-winning  Chicago Sun-Times  critic who made reviewing movies a whole lot of fun than it looks. Hosting notable movie review TV shows with the late great Gene Siskel (1946-1999) as  Sneak Previews  (1977-1982),  At the Movies  (1982-1986), and  Siskel and Ebert  (1986-1999). Ebert had created a lasting legacy as an icon of film criticism, with the "Two Thumbs Up" becoming an enduring phrase in the world of cinema and an example of the enduring legacy of its celebrated critics.   To celebrate the great critic, I compiled a list of Roger Ebert's best scathing reviews on films he immensely disliked. These movies were so awful that they unleashed unbridled anger from the critic and wrote some of the most scathing reviews I have ever seen since reading the reviews to  Cats.  These reviews will rank in terms of