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 ).

In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a 3 1 / 2 out of four stars, calling it " an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.

In April 2010, Ebert posted his screenplay of " Who Killed Bambi?

At the time of its release, film critic Roger Ebert, who named Z the best film of 1969, liked the screenplay and its message, and wrote, “ is a film of our time.

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.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3-and-a-half stars out of four, calling the screenplay " smart, subtle and ruthless.

Meyer handed the scriptwriting duties over to Ebert, who, in collaboration with McLaren, produced a screenplay entitled Who Killed Bambi?

Roger Ebert wrote that " Nicholson and Keaton bring so much experience, knowledge and humor to their characters that the film works in ways the screenplay might not have even hoped for.

Roger Ebert liked the film and the screenplay, writing, " This is a good small movie, sweet and sentimental, about a kid who never really got a chance to show his stuff.

Roger Ebert writes that Joon is " schizophrenic, although the screenplay doesn't ever say the word out loud.

Roger Ebert, who gave Young Guns II 2 stars out of 4 stars, stated that " the screenplay feels unfinished, the direction is ambling, but the performances are interesting.

Roger Ebert gave National Treasure two stars ( out of four ), calling it " so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.

Roger Ebert, noted critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film three out of four stars, praising the performances and Branagh's screenplay.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "' Tommy Boy ' is one of those movies that plays like an explosion down at the screenplay factory.

20th Century Fox rejected two screenplay drafts, and the final version, written by director Russ Meyer and novice screenwriter Roger Ebert in six weeks, was not only a spoof of the original film, but, in Ebert's words " a satire of Hollywood conventions, genres, situations, dialogue, characters and success formulas, heavily overlaid with such shocking violence that some critics didn't know whether the movie ' knew ' it was a comedy.

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote ; " The Secret of My Success seems trapped in some kind of time warp, as if the screenplay had been in a drawer since the 1950s and nobody bothered to update it.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times awarded the film three stars out of four, stating " The director Brad Anderson, working from a screenplay by Scott Kosar, wants to convey a state of mind, and he and Bale do that with disturbing effectiveness.

Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader described the film as a " corny but sincere weeper ", while Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star ( out of 4 ) and criticized the screenplay ( calling it " murky " and including it on his " Most Hated " list ).

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film one star out of a possible four, calling the screenplay " shallow and exploitative.

Film critic Roger Ebert liked the screenplay of the film, and wrote, " And on and on, around and around, in an elegant and sly deadpan comedy.

Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " The movie feels so plotted, so constructed, so written, that I found myself thinking maybe they shouldn't have filmed the final draft of the screenplay.

As with Gaghan's screenplay for Traffic, Syriana uses multiple, parallel storylines, jumping from locations in Texas, Washington D. C., Switzerland, Spain, and the Middle East, leading film critic Ebert to describe the film as hyperlink cinema.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half out of four stars and said that " if Frankenheimer and his screenplay don't do justice to the character ( of Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ), they at least do justice to the genre, and this is better than most of the many cop movies that followed The French Connection into release.

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 ".

In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert states: " Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm.

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars, praising the film for being " boldly operatic, involving family drama, secrets, generations at war, melodrama, romance and violence ".

Ebert kept a copy of the poster in his office for many years and it was clearly visible in the opening of his television program.

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

The CTH received support from foreign labor organizations, including ORIT, the American Institute for Free Labor Development ( AIFLD ), and Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation and was an affiliate of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ).

" Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert wrote " film stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most particularly Penelope Cruz as Silvia.

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.

However, it was not well-received internationally ; in America, for example, Roger Ebert claimed that it was neither erotic nor about eroticism.

Roger Ebert awarded the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, writing: " It is a well-directed film, because Besson has a natural gift for plunging into drama with a charged-up visual style.

Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote, " What's nicest about the film is the way it treasures the good feelings people can have for one another ".

The Dead Pool grossed nearly $ 38 million ( US $), relatively low receipts for a Dirty Harry film and it is generally viewed as the weakest film of the series, although Roger Ebert perceived it to be as good as the original.

Janet Maslin in The New York Times said Spacey was at his " wittiest and most agile " to date, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a man who " does reckless and foolish things who doesn't deceive himself ".

* 1975: Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, " for his film criticism during 1974.

Ebert is known for his film review column ( appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online ) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel.

Roger Ebert ( right ) with Russ Meyer in 1970.

Russ Meyer ( left ) and Roger Ebert in 1970 ( photo from Roger Ebert )

What eventually appeared was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( 1970 ), scripted by film critic ( and Meyer devotee ) Roger Ebert and bearing no relation to the novel or film's continuity ( a development necessitated after Jacqueline Susann sued the studio ).

Roger Ebert, in his audio commentary for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( 1970 ) gives the film credit for inspiring all-female rock bands, with the fictional band Carrie Nations created for the film, stating that such bands were quite rare at the time, but started to spring up in the film's wake.

Russ Meyer ( left ) and Roger Ebert ( right ) in 1970