Reichspräsident Friedrich Ebert: ( 1923 ), as Provisional President of the Weimar Republic in 1919, he contributed to the myth, in telling home-coming veterans that “ no enemy has vanquished you ”.

Even provisional President Friedrich Ebert contributed to the myth when he saluted returning veterans with the oration that " no enemy has vanquished you " ( kein Feind hat euch überwunden!

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

Roger Ebert has written of the film's ending:

Roger Ebert has said " his world is always hallucinatory in its richness of detail.

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

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 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.

The film met with generally positive reviews ; Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars and described it as a " very good film ... with moments evoking great emotion ", while Variety Todd McCarthy wrote, " Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.

Each giving it thumbs up, Siskel remarked, " The Abyss has been improved ," and Ebert added, " it makes the film seem more well rounded.

Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942 ) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who has been described by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit in America ".

Since the 1970s, Ebert has worked for the University of Chicago as a guest lecturer, teaching a night class on film.

Ebert has described his critical approach to films as " relative, not absolute "; he reviews a film for what he feels will be its prospective audience, yet always with at least some consideration as to its value as a whole.

Ebert has emphasized that his star ratings have little meaning if not considered in the context of the review itself.

Ebert has acknowledged such cases, stating, " I cannot recommend the movie, but ... why the hell can't I?

Ebert has reprinted his starred reviews in movie guides.

Ebert later added The Godfather Part II to his " Great Movies " list in October 2008 stating that his original review has often been cited as proof of his " worthlessness " but he still hasn't changed his mind and wouldn't change a word of his original review.

Ebert has occasionally accused some films of having an unwholesome political agenda, and the word " fascist " accompanied more than one of Ebert's reviews of the law-and-order films of the 1970s such as Dirty Harry.

Ebert has leveled this charge against such films as The Night Porter.

Ebert has been known to comment on films using his own Roman Catholic upbringing as a point of reference, and has been critical of films he believes are grossly ignorant of or insulting to Catholicism, such as Stigmata and Priest, though he has given favorable reviews of controversial films with themes or references to Jesus and Catholicism, including The Passion of the Christ, The Last Temptation of Christ, and to Kevin Smith's religious satire Dogma.

Ebert has been accused by some horror movie fans of bourgeois elitism in his dismissal of what he calls " Dead Teenager Movies ".

Ebert has indicated that his favorite film is Citizen Kane, joking, " That's the official answer ," although he prefers to emphasize it as " the most important " film.

Ebert has clarified this in the commentary of the film's recent Criterion Collection re-release.

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.

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 ".

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.

According to Ebert, he does not miss the activity of eating or drinking so much as the camaraderie of dining with friends.

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.

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.

Roger Ebert said the film was not " as sly and has no ambition to be charming " as Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, " but in a season of dreary failed comedies it does what a comedy must: It makes us laugh.

The Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert criticized the film's portrayal of an investigative newspaper reporter: " To say that no respectable journalist would ever do the things that Sally Field does about, to, and with Paul Newman in this movie.

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.

Ebert favoured retaining the monarchy under a different ruler (" If the Kaiser does not abdicate, the social revolution is inevitable.

Film critic Roger Ebert has said that Griffith " moves the camera with greater freedom and has a headlong narrative and an exciting use of cross-cutting that Pastrone does not approach.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times commented that " The movie is silly beyond comprehension, and even if it weren't silly, it would still be beyond comprehension " but does comment that the film has its good moments.

Ebert said that " the touch that was used so well in director Penny Marshall's previous films Big and A League of Their Own are totally missing in Renaissance Man and this feels like a cross between Dead Poets Society and Private Benjamin but does not have the warmth or spirit of those films ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, " It's the kind of sweet, good-humored comedy that used to star Margaret Rutherford, although Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, its daring top-liners, would have curled Dame Margaret's eyebrows ... That the movie works, and it does, is mostly because of the charm of Mirren and Walters, who show their characters having so much fun that it becomes infectious.

" However, other critics praised the film, such as Roger Ebert, who gave the film three out of four stars, remarking " The movie does contain a love story, but it's the kind of guarded passion that grows between two people who spend a lot of time keeping their priorities straight.

According to notes taken by Max von Baden, Ebert declared on 7 November: " If the Kaiser does not abdicate, the social revolution is unavoidable.

" Roger Ebert praised the movie: " Unlike so many other movies of its genre, it really does have a satiric angle to it.

Roger Ebert awarded three stars out of a possible four with his own consensus, stating: " Bullock does a good job here of working against her natural likability, creating a character you'd like to like, and could like, if she weren't so sad, strange and turned in upon herself.

Roger Ebert gave the film a 3 / 4 star rating in his Chicago Sun-Times review and in praise writes " in a miraculous gift to the audience, 20th Century-Fox does not reveal all of the best gags in its trailer.

" Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times was of the opinion that " The Fabulous Baker Boys doesn't do anything very original, but what it does, it does wonderfully well.

Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert called it " a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3. 5 out of 4 stars and wrote, " What Midnight Run does with these two characters is astonishing, because it's accomplished within the structure of a comic thriller ...

Roger Ebert was very negative about the film, giving it one star, saying that it was " poor, nasty, brutish, and short ," and that it has a plot hole " that is not only large enough to drive a truck through, but in fact does have a truck driven right through it.