5 Thumb-Approved Clips from At the Movies's Longtime Run

· Gigli

You'll be surprised or upset (or both) to find that Roger Ebert didn't hand the 2003 Bennifer feature an evisceration. Fortunately, then-"guest" Richard Roeper sets him straight and calls out the film for the legendary bomb it has since become.

· The Hurt Locker

When Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz took over At the Movies in 2008, their placid banter wasn't enough to sustain the series. For instance, when the two critics disagreed over who should've won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (which eventually went to Heath Ledger, of course), their reasoning was flatly delivered and unmemorable. Call each other fat or something, you two! The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips and The New York Times's A.O. Scott, who both took over the ship next after guest-appearing for years opposite Roeper, engaged each other more forcibly. Their recent Oscar predictions episode (clipped below) was articulate and interesting, though still not as thoroughly engaging as the show's thumb-drawing patriarchs.

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