Ebert also praised Vincent Gallo's performance, but claimed Alden Ehrenreich is " the new Leonardo DiCaprio ".

Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early entrance student, completing his high school courses while also taking his first university class.

While at the University of Illinois, Ebert worked as a reporter for the The Daily Illini and then served as its editor during his senior year while also continuing to work as a reporter for the News-Gazette of Champagne-Urbana, Illinois ( he had begun at the News-Gazette at age 15 covering Urbana High School sports ).

Ebert and Meyer also made Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Up !, and others, and were involved in the ill-fated Sex Pistols movie Who Killed Bambi?

Ebert responded that the charge of prejudice was merely a euphemism for disagreement, that merely being moved by an experience does not denote it as artistic, and that critics are also consumers.

Ebert has provided DVD audio commentaries for several films, including Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Dark City, Floating Weeds, Crumb, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( for which Ebert also wrote the screenplay, based on a story that he co-wrote with Russ Meyer ).

Ebert was also interviewed by Central Park Media for an extra feature on the DVD release of the anime film Grave of the Fireflies.

Roger Ebert founded his own film festival, Ebertfest, in his home town of Champaign, Illinois and is also a regular fixture at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

Ebert has also expressed disbelief in pseudoscientific or supernatural claims in general, calling them " woo-woo ".

Roger Ebert also reviewed the film after its 1999 re-release:

" In his review of the film, Roger Ebert says that " Chaplin was technically not playing the Tramp ", but Ebert also states that, " He put the Little Tramp and $ 1. 5 million of his own money on the line to ridicule Hitler ".

Like Ebert, Klady also singled out the speech by Seagal's character at the end of the film.

The Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney, Paul Ebert, is also a Democrat.

In a review of the film written after it received its Academy Awards, Roger Ebert called it a " supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s ," though " what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that Network will outlive a lot of tidier movies.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and praised the film for being as " knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made, but it also has insights into the more personal matter of how people use high-pressure jobs as a way of avoiding time alone with themselves ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 / 4 stars, writing that there " are so many subplots that Jerry Maguire seems too full " and also commented that the film " starts out looking cynical and quickly becomes a heartwarmer.

Farley also performed impersonations of Tom Arnold, who gave Farley's eulogy at his private funeral ; Andrew Giuliani, Jerry Garcia, Meat Loaf, Norman Schwarzkopf, Dom DeLuise, Roger Ebert, Carnie Wilson, Newt Gingrich, Mindy Cohn, Mama Cass, Hank Williams, Jr., and Rush Limbaugh were among the celebrities and real-life figures he portrayed.

While considering the film's special effects as " astonishing ", Ebert also contended " the movie is slow to get off the ground " and " sometimes the movie fails on the basic level of making itself clear.

Ebert also placed the film on his list of the top ten films of the year.

" Roger Ebert also criticized the morality tale character of the movie, saying that " you can't have heroes and villains when the wrong side is making the best sense.

Some high profile figures such as actor Aziz Ansari and film critic Roger Ebert have also actively voiced their concerns.

Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, and called it " the most violent film I have ever seen ", also reflecting on how the movie personally impacted him as a former altar boy.

Roger Ebert praised the ability of the film to spoof the " illogic of the TV show ".

Roger Ebert discussed it in a June 2000 article and praised Strange Company's machinima setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet " Ozymandias ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said it was " as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises ", yet praised its acting and technical execution.

Roger Ebert instantly praised it as one of the greatest films he ’ d ever seen, claiming: " Taxi Driver " is a hell, from the opening shot of a cab emerging from stygian clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks straight down.

Critics praised Curry's performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Roger Ebert called him " the best thing in the movie, maybe because he seems to be having the most fun.

Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his Man with No Name character in the Dollars westerns and praised the film's atmosphere.

Roger Ebert wrote that the film is " fascinating ," " masterful ," and praised DiCaprio's performance.

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Tate as " a wonder to behold ", but after describing the dialogue in one scene as " the most offensive and appalling vulgarity ever thrown up by any civilization ", concluded that, " I will be unable to take her any more seriously as a sex symbol than Raquel Welch.

Roger Ebert praised his performance, and noted that while " DiCaprio, who in recent films [...] has played dark and troubled characters, is breezy and charming here, playing a boy who discovers what he is good at, and does it.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and praised it for allowing " all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense.

Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his " Man with No Name " character in the Dollars Trilogy and praised the atmosphere of the film.

Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it 4 out of 4 stars and observing that:

Critics praised the film and its " new " director, with The New York Times commenting that the film was " sharply directed by Allen Smithee who has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail ," and Roger Ebert commenting, " Director Allen Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film as " the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films ".

Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film for how it took " on the resonance of classic tragedy.

In the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert praised the film, saying: " Magnolia is the kind of film I instinctively respond to.

On the other hand, Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and praised it highly, saying, " Here we have a Woody Allen film, and we're talking about O ' Neill and Bergman and traditions and influences?

Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it four out of four stars.

" Decades later, Roger Ebert also praised the film, adding it to his " Great Movies " list and calling it " the most elegant expression of the master's visual style.

Roger Ebert praised Freeman's performance as well as Rickman's, but ultimately decried the film as a whole, giving it two stars and stating, " Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a murky, unfocused, violent, and depressing version of the classic story ...

" Ebert also praised Depp for drawing away from the way the character was written.

Movie critic Roger Ebert praised Watts ' performance: " The character is played by Watts with courage, fearless observation, and a gift for timing that is so uncanny it can make points all by itself.