Chances are, if you’ve ever paid attention to critics’ notes on DVD jackets or if you ever checked out the movie reviews on Fandango, you were familiar with Roger Ebert’s work.

Legendary film critic, Roger Ebert passed away at the age of 70 on Thursday, April 4, after just announcing that his cancer had returned two days earlier. Ebert was known as one of the greatest film critics of our time, writing movie reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for forty-six years exactly.

His reviews were widely popular for their harsh words on the completely awful or even the slightly mediocre movies. Ebert had nearly 900,000 followers on Twitter, and he was also the first film critic to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.

First diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Roger was forced to undergo surgery a year later when doctors found cancerous growths on his salivary glands. This procedure involved removing most of his lower jaw, leaving him unable to speak. But he continued to write reviews for the Sun-Times all the way up to his death.

Roger Ebert will be missed by many people, and the world gives his life two thumbs up as he leaves it forever.