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Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959)^[1] is a columnist/film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert.

Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois to Bob and Margaret Roeper. He graduated from Illinois State University in 1982 and began working as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1987. The topics of his columns range from politics to media to entertainment, and he has written several books on film criticism and urban myths. Roeper also has been a radio host on WLS AM 890 in Chicago. He also hosted shows on WLUP-FM, WLS-FM and WMVP-AM in Chicago. He won three Emmy awards for his news commentaries on Fox in the 1990s, and was the film critic for CBS in Chicago for three years in the early 2000s. He was bestowed with the National Headliner Award as the top newspaper columnist in the country in 1992, and has been voted best columnist in Illinois on numerous occasions.

After Gene Siskel of Siskel & Ebert died in 1999, the series was renamed Roger Ebert & The Movies and featured rotating co-hosts. In what would become an on-air audition that ultimately was whittled down to Joyce Kulhawik, Michaela Pereira, and Roeper, the latter was offered the opportunity to co-host the popular film review show with fellow Chicago Sun-Times columnist Roger Ebert. The series was renamed to Ebert & Roeper at the Movies in 2000 and immediately enhanced Roeper's importance as a film critic. He continues to write his nationally syndicated, award winning general interest columns, and he also contributes long reviews to the Sun-Times and to newspapers across the country.

Roeper has given some box-office hits thumbs down. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl both received negative reviews from him.

Beginning in August 2006, while his cohost Roger Ebert was recovering from surgery for thyroid cancer, Roeper was joined by guest critics, including Clerks director Kevin Smith and The Tonight Show host Jay Leno.

Roeper has given lists of his ten favorite films of the year, annually, since he began co-hosting the show in 2000. Here are the films that each list comprised:

• He Rents, She Rents: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Women's Films and Guy Movies, with Laurie Viera (1999)
• Hollywood Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Delightfully(Weeee!) Persistent Myths of Films, Television, and Music (2001)
• Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Deliciously Entertaining Myths That Are Absolutely, Positively, 100% Not True (2001)
• Ten Sure Signs a Movie Character is Doomed, and Other Surprising Movie Lists (2003)
• Schlock Value: Hollywood at Its Worst (2005)
• Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz (2006)

• At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper official web site of the show
• TV Tome Biography
• Internet Movie Database Biography
• Richard Roeper Site at Chicago Sun-Times