Ebert’s Eight-Minute Review

Roger Ebert continues to give you a reason to read him. The critic ends a new review, a pan of the film Tru Loved, with a startling disclosure: “I lifted the words ‘San Francisco to conservative suburbia with her lesbian mothers’ straight from the plot summary on IMDb.com, because I stopped watching the movie at the 00:08.05 point.” This may seem to some a deplorable shirking of critical responsibility, but Ebert justifies his abandonment thusly: “The rating only applies to the first eight minutes. After that, you're on your own.”