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.

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

* 1919 – Friedrich Ebert ( SPD ), is elected President of Germany.

One of Scorsese's most consistent supporters, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote that " In countless ways, right down to the detail of modern TV crime shows, Mean Streets is one of the source points of modern movies.

Although movie critic Roger Ebert was not impressed with most of the other actors, he writes in his review, " ... we discover once again what a warm and engaging actor Peter Falk is.

Critic Roger Ebert stated that Gellar and co-star Ryan Phillippe " develop a convincing emotional charge " and that Gellar is " effective as a bright girl who knows exactly how to use her act as a tramp ".

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.

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

Roger Ebert gave the film a four-star rating and described it as one that " involves us deeply in the story, and then it reveals that the story is really about something else altogether.

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.

** Friedrich Ebert is elected first President of Germany.

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 ".

Roger Ebert stated, " This is one of the smartest and most provocative of science fiction films, a thriller with ideas.

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.

Roger Ebert wrote, " Streep and Eastwood weave a spell, and it is based on that particular knowledge of love and self that comes with middle age.

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

" 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.

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that the book was " banal ," and that " The Little Engine That Could is, by comparison, a work of some depth and ambition.

Roger Ebert noted that " Metropolis is one of the great achievements of the silent era, a work so audacious in its vision and so angry in its message that it is, if anything, more powerful today than when it was made.

" Although he acknowledged that the film was not without its charms — Paris and Cannes being " two of the most photogenic cities on earth "— Ebert wrote, " Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiance in the first place.

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 ".

Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.

Roger Ebert said of his performance: " For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo.

Roger Ebert commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of the " creepier " aspects of the film, and mentioned her ability to convey the impression of great age inside apparent youth.

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

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 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.

Ebert stood by his opinions with one notable exception — when Stern pointed out that Ebert had given The Godfather Part II a three-star rating in 1974, but had subsequently given The Godfather Part III three and a half stars.

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 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.

At one point, his status was so precarious that Ebert had a tracheotomy performed on his neck to reduce the effort of breathing while he recovered.

Although doctors have asked him to allow them to make one more attempt to restore his voice, Ebert has refused, indicating that he is done with surgery, and will likely decline significant intervention even if his cancer returns, as he feels that the last procedure he underwent did more harm than good.

marked a turning point in his career, one that would make him, in the words of film critic Roger Ebert, " the Olivier of spoofs.

Roger Ebert, who reacted favorably to other films of Romero's Dead Series, gave Day of the Dead one and a half stars.

( 1962 ) in 2008, Ebert asserted that " no one who has seen the film will ever forget her.

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 ).

It gained mostly positive reviews from film critics and a " two thumbs up " from Siskel and Ebert.

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.

In 1982, the critics moved to a syndicated commercial television show named At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and in 1986 they left to create Siskel & Ebert & The Movies with Buena Vista Television ( part of the Walt Disney Company ).

" In August 2004 Stephen King, in a column, criticized what he saw as a growing trend of leniency towards films from critics including Ebert.

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 had pre-taped enough TV programs with his co-host Richard Roeper to keep him on the air for a few weeks ; his extended convalescence necessitated a series of " guest critics " to co-host with Roeper: Jay Leno, Kevin Smith, John Ridley, Toni Senecal, Christy Lemire, Michael Phillips, Aisha Tyler, Fred Willard, Anne Thompson, A. O.

* Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert ( ISBN 0-226-18200-2 ) – a collection of essays from his 40 years as a film critic, featuring interviews, profiles, essays, his initial reviews upon a film's release, as well as critical exchanges between the film critics Richard Corliss and Andrew Sarris

The film was well received among major film critics, including Roger Ebert.

In a 2002 retrospective, Roger Ebert, who " saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters ", said that back then he had publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from " a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask ' Why was this film ever made?

Witherspoon's portrayal of Carter Cash was well received by critics, and Roger Ebert wrote that her performance added " boundless energy " to the movie.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 1 / 2 stars, stating, " At Cannes, it offended some left-wing critics with its use of humor in connection with the Holocaust.

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction from critics and audiences towards Rocky II and the production team's " quality control " of that film.

Despite the reception, Schwimmer's performance was favored by critics ; Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the role was Schwimmer's " career-transforming performance ".

* November 23-Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

Despite positive reviews from some critics, including Roger Ebert, the film was a box office flop.

The movie was well received by critics, including Siskel and Ebert praising the movie.

On a similar route, the two-headed dragon was named " Eborsisk " after film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.

It received rave reviews from critics, most notably from Roger Ebert who gave it four stars.

A number of critics, including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, positively reviewed the film.

The film, aside from the feud with Roger Ebert, gained some positive reaction from American critics as well.

Film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were offended by Porky's and later called it one of the worst films of 1982.

Roger Ebert and James Berardinelli, while panning the film, were two of the very few critics to not write it off completely.