Critic Roger Ebert was and remains today a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list.

Critic Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.

Critic Roger Ebert stated that Gellar and co-star Ryan Phillippe " develop a convincing emotional charge " and that Gellar is " effective as a bright girl who knows exactly how to use her act as a tramp ".

Critic Roger Ebert has included the film in his series of " Great Movies " reviews.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's " extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.

Critic and artist Roger Fry did something to restore it in the 1930s, when he described Lawrence as having a " consummate mastery over the means of artistic expression " with an " unerring hand and eye ".

Critic Roger Ebert wrote an article entitled, " Attacks on ' Roger & Me ' completely miss point of film " that defends Moore's manipulation of his film's timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that has less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a viewpoint using the same methods that satirists have used.

Critic Roger Ebert said of the film that it " somehow does succeed in treating the awesome and scary subject of sexual initiation with some of the dignity it deserves.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote in his review, " The best shot in this film is the first one.

Critic Roger Kimball suggests that Opium is " a seminal book of the twentieth century.

Critic Roger Ebert's review was four out of four stars ; at the end of the year, he named it the best film of 1999.

Critic Roger Ebert reviewed Deep Throat in an early 1973 column, giving it a no-stars rating and writing, " It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom ; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, praising the film's visual artistry but stating that there is " no narrative engine to pull us past the visual scenery ", and that he " suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, calling it " a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times.

Critic Roger Ebert called it " one of the great films.

Critic Roger Ebert called it " one of the best horror films ever made ".

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times remarked that " Here, using big movie stars and asking them to play each other, Woo and his writers find a terrific counterpoint to the action scenes: All through the movie, you find yourself reinterpreting every scene as you realize the ' other ' character is ' really ' playing it.

Critic Roger Ebert stated, " I am gradually developing a suspicion, or perhaps it is a fear, that Jim Carrey is growing on me ", as he had given bad reviews for his previous films Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

" Critic Roger Ebert praised the film as " an original, intelligent thriller, well-directed by Joel Schumacher ," and called the cast " talented young actors, inhabit the shadows with the right mixture of intensity, fear and cockiness.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars, stating " When you hear that Dr. T is a gynecologist played by Richard Gere, you assume he is a love machine mowing down his patients.

Critic Roger Ebert had read the novel and believed the film is true to its themes.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie three stars out of four, saying " Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil: Here are two smart men playing a game with deadly stakes.

" Top Critic Roger Ebert went further, saying of the film " In a genre where a lot of movies are retreads of the predictable, ' Deep Blue Sea ' keeps you guessing.

In 1995, Ebert, along with colleague Gene Siskel, guest starred on an episode of the animated TV series The Critic.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times: " The film is a masterful achievement on all the technical levels -- it does an especially good job of convincing us with its Asian locations -- but the best moments are the human ones, the conversations, the exchanges of trust, the waiting around, the sudden fear, the quick bursts of violence, the desperation.

Critic Roger Ebert said that " Pedro Almodóvar's films are an acquired taste, and with High Heels I am at last beginning to acquire it.

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Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.

Critic Dennis Schwartz lauded the film and wrote, " This is Joseph H. Lewis's second feature and one that has the same intense energy as his The Big Combo ( 1955 ) and My Name is Julia Ross ( 1945 ).

Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have " permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form ".

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

Critic Danél Griffin remarked, " Romero freely admits that his film was a direct rip-off of Matheson's novel ; I would be a little less harsh in my description and say that Romero merely expanded the author's ideas with deviations so completely original that of the Living Dead is expelled from being labeled a true ' rip-off '".

Critic Dennis Schwartz questioned the noir aspects of the film and discussed the cinematography in his review.

Critic Stephen Farber has described the film as " One of the most skillful and entertaining summaries of Marilyn's endlessly fascinating rise and fall.

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

Critic Dennis Schwartz appreciated the acting ensemble in the film and wrote, " The film was too stagebound to be effective cinema, but it scores points in its unsentimental portrait of the loser life of the lonely and desperate merchant seamen.

Critic Lawrence van Gelder, writing for The New York Times, did not like the film.

Critic Henry Sheehan described the film as a retelling of Peter Pan from the perspective of a Lost Boy ( Elliott ): E. T.

Critic James Agee noted that " the Hays office must have been raped in its sleep " to allow the film to be released.

Critic Billy Stevenson described the film as Moore's " most astonishing ", arguing that it represents an effort to conflate film-making and labor, and that " it's this fusion of film-making and work that allows Moore to fully convey the desecration of Flint without ever transforming it into a sublime or melancholy poverty-spectacle, thereby distancing himself from the retouristing of the town-as-simulacrum that occupies the last and most intriguing part of the film.

Critic Vincent Canby praised the film, calling the film " a devastating collage-film that examines official and unofficial United States attitudes toward the atomic age " and a film that " deserves national attention.

Critic James Steffen appreciated the direction of the film and the cinematography of Lee Garmes, writing " While Detective Story remains essentially a filmed play, Wyler manages to use the inherent constraints of such an approach as an artistic advantage.