Siskel died in 1999, and Ebert bowed out in 2011, two years before his death. But, for many people, they remain the very exemplars of film criticism.

Like any great rivalry, the competition and, later, the lucrative partnership between Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has been dissected and de… ...

Siskel and Ebert were highly competitive — especially Siskel, who couldn’t stand the fact that Ebert had become the first movie critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, also in 1975.

Something Ebert had to say when I called him for comment for the obituary I was writing about Siskel in the wake of his death, so untimely at age 53, came back to me: “I remember after we first ...

Like any great rivalry, the competition and, later, the lucrative partnership between Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has been dissected and ...

During the late 1980s, when his movie review show with fellow film critic Roger Ebert was called “Sneak Previews,” Gene Siskel would occasionally take cat naps under the table in their station ...

Gene Siskel, left, and Roger Ebert, photographed in Los Angeles in 1986, had a contentious relationship that made their TV shows about movie criticism major hits, as chronicled in Matt Singer’s ...

Siskel and Ebert disagreed often — and often with an annoyance that wasn’t feigned. More notable, however, were the times they teamed up.

Siskel for nearly a quarter of a century; Ebert for 10 years. Most critics will never be remembered. But these two have statues erected in their memory. They have this book written about them.

“Siskel and Ebert took the movies seriously, but they didn’t take themselves seriously,” Mr. Singer writes, “which became another huge reason for their popularity.” ...

Despite having overseen hundreds of episodes of “Siskel & Ebert” and “Ebert & Roeper,” Don is not a movie buff, which makes him the team’s ultimate authority on what is and isn’t engaging.