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 praised James Woods ' portrayal of Hades, stating that Woods brings " something of the same verbal inventiveness that Robin Williams brought to Aladdin ".

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.

Ebert revisits and sometimes revises his opinions.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars, giving praise to the screenplay by Robert Benton: " His characters aren't just talking to each other, they're revealing things about themselves and can sometimes be seen in the act of learning about their own motives.

It has nurtured writers and artists such as Ray Bradbury, Roger Ebert, Lenny Kaye, Michael Moorcock and Trina Robbins ; and has generated such spin-offs as comic book fandom, media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming fandom, and furry fandom, sometimes collectively referred to as " fringe fandoms ".

Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, regarding it as " always interesting and sometimes compelling, and it contains more actual provocative thought than any American film on race since Do the Right Thing ".

Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars describing it as "... entertaining and sometimes exciting ".

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

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote: " Rounders sometimes has a noir look but it never has a noir feel, because it's not about losers ( or at least it doesn't admit it is ).

Roger Ebert was less impressed, giving the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " a sometimes entertaining movie, but thin.

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, liked the direction of the film, and wrote, " Their story is told in images of startling beauty and great overflowing energy ; it is rare to hear so much laughter from an audience that is also sometimes moved to tears.

Roger Ebert wrote, " I sometimes enjoy movies that make no sense whatsoever, if that's their intention.

" Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying " the movie finds countless opportunities for humorous scenes, most of them with a quiet little bite, a way of causing us to look at our society ", noting that " by using a central character who cannot talk, is sometimes able to explore the kinds of scenes that haven't been possible since the death of silent film.

Each year, renowned film critic Roger Ebert picks one film to be shown at HIFF and he sometimes travels to Hawaii in order to introduce it to the audience.

In the words of film critic Roger Ebert, " the director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Roger Ebert gave it four stars out of four and called it " a powerful experience ".

Roger Ebert called it " the truest line in the film ... Travis Bickle's desperate need to make some kind of contact somehow-to share or mimic the effortless social interaction he sees all around him, but does not participate in.

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.

French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog " the most important film director alive " and American film critic Roger Ebert stated that Herzog " has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting.

Roger Ebert, in contrast, gave the film three stars and called it "... classic Clint Eastwood: fast, furious, and funny.

Ebert's most recent show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called " Roger's Office ".

Ebert employed a Scottish company called CereProc, which custom-tailors text-to-speech software for voiceless customers who record their voices at length before losing them, and mined tapes and DVD commentaries featuring Ebert to create a voice that sounds more like his own voice.

The eagle ( Reichsadler, now called Bundesadler ) in the design that was used in the coat of arms and presidential standard in the Weimar Republic and today was originally introduced by a decision by President Friedrich Ebert on 11 November 1919.

" Roger Ebert called it " an absorbing and seductive movie.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called it " terribly complicated, involved and fascinating-a revelation.

" Almost a quarter-century later, Ebert wrote a second review, in which he called Woman Under the Influence " perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes ' films.

The exception was critic Gene Siskel who, on the TV show " Siskel & Ebert ", admitted " I went to the theater to see it expecting the worst ", and called it, " a brave little movie that explored the provocative issue of how some frustrated men channel their inability to love a woman into cruelty.

Roger Ebert called Temple of Doom " the most cheerfully exciting, bizarre, goofy, romantic adventure movie since Raiders, and it is high praise to say that it's not so much a sequel as an equal.

On its release, Roger Ebert called the film one of the year's best, gave it four stars out of four, and described it as an " exciting, sweet-tempered, heart-warming story with one of the most interesting friendships in a long time.

Roger Ebert called Bakshi's effort a " mixed blessing " and " an entirely respectable, occasionally impressive job still falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it " a visually sensational two-hour extravaganza ".

Critics Siskel and Ebert each rated the film among the top three of the 1986 film year ; Ebert's 1986 review of the film called it " the best movie Allen has ever made.

Roger Ebert gave the film three stars ( out of four ) and called the film a " compromise, a film that forces a smile onto material that doesn't wear one easily ," writing that the film drew " back to story formulas ," but had good dialog and performances.

Roger Ebert called it a " genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators ...

Roger Ebert has called it the inspiration for low budget independent films.

Film critic Roger Ebert called Hawke's performance convincing and noteworthy: " Hawke captures all the right notes as the boorish Troy.