Who is the most famous movie critic?
Who is the most famous movie critic? Roger Ebert American film critic Roger Ebert. (Photo by Frank Capri/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Arguably the most famous U.S. film critic of all time, Roger Ebert reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for nearly fifty years. Why is Roger Ebert so famous? He became the first movie critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1975. He was also the first film critic to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Ebert was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013 (from cancer)....