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Film critics join lineup for annual film festival event

By Melissa Merli
Friday, April 4, 2008 9:56 AM CDT

CHAMPAIGN – Roger Ebert will be getting a little help from his friends during his 10th annual film festival in Champaign.

Time magazine movie critic Richard Corliss, Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips and Richard Roeper, Ebert's Sun-Times colleague and partner in the weekly movie-review television program "Ebert & Roeper," will fill in for him onstage during Ebertfest, or Roger Ebert's Film Festival, April 23-27 at the Virginia Theatre. They will take turns questioning festival guests after the screenings.

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