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 clarified that he does not disparage horror movies as a whole, but that he draws a distinction between films like Nosferatu and The Silence of the Lambs, which he regards as " masterpieces ", and films which he feels consist of nothing more than groups of teenagers being killed off with the exception of one survivor to populate a sequel.

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.

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

Critical reception was mostly positive ; critics including Roger Ebert considered it one of the best Star Trek films.

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.

The film led Roger Ebert to call Reiner " one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy ", and said that it was " most conventional, in terms of structure and the way it fulfills our expectations.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.

Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert ranked it as one of Allen's best.

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed the film " is not blindingly brilliant, and is not an example of the very best work of the director who made The Year of Living Dangerously or the actor who starred in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert ranked the film as the best of 1989 and later ranked it as one of the top 10 films of the decade ( Siskel No. 6, Ebert # 4 ).

" Fellow film critic Roger Ebert believes, " The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but Duck Soup is probably the best.

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.

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.

" Ebert later placed the film on his ten best list of 1984.

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

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 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.

On the television program Ebert & Roeper, filmmaker Kevin Smith, filling in for Roger Ebert, described the film as the best of the year thus far and called it Ricci's best performance.

" Ebert put the film at # 3 of his list of the best films of 1975 ( even though the film came out in ' 74 ).

James Berardinelli of the website ReelReviews wrote that the film was, “ As profound and intelligent as it is moving, and that makes this memorable motion picture one of 1996's best .” Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times spoke positively of the film saying that while the ending “… lays on the emotion a little heavily ” the movie had been up until that point “… a fascinating emotional and logistical puzzle — almost a courtroom movie, with the desert as the courtroom .”

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

In reviewing the movie, critic Roger Ebert claimed that: " Osment, who is onscreen in almost every scene, is one of the best actors now working ".