Ebert reviews online

Thanks to the Web, the balcony will never close.

More than 20 years of televised movie reviews from Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper and the late Gene Siskel are available beginning today at www.AtTheMoviesTV.com.

Searchable by movie title, director or actor, the site features 5,000 lively discussions from “Siskel & Ebert at the Movies” and “Ebert & Roeper” that always end with the reviewers’ “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” evaluations.

“For years, this was a dream,” Ebert said in a statement.

“Now I am exhilarated that it is a reality, thanks to the enormous effort of digitizing something like 1,000 programs.”

Ebert, 65, has had a series of surgeries in recent years and has not appeared on “Ebert & Roeper” since last summer.

But he has written some reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been the film critic since 1967 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.