"Formula comedies are a dime a dozen. Those based on an original idea are more rare, and Groundhog Day, apart from everything else, is a demonstration of the way time can sometimes give us a break. Just because we're born as SOBs doesn't mean we have to live that way."
— Roger Ebert

January 1, 1970

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Original 3-star review of Groundhog Day in Chicago Sun-Times (12 February 1993); he later wrote a 4-star review for it in 2005 (quoted in the 4-star section above).