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

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.

In memorial of this " Hour of birth of democracy ", the 11th August was created as Constitution Day, because the President of the Empire, Friedrich Ebert, signed the constitution on this day.

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 ).

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.

" Similarly, Roger Ebert, writing of his iconic performance in Last Tango in Paris, said: " This was the greatest movie actor of his time, the author of performances that do honor to the cinema.

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.

After a brief spell as Budapesterstraße in the late 1920s ( although this name was not widely recognised ), on 6 February 1930 it was renamed Ebertstraße after Friedrich Ebert ( 1871 – 1925 ), first President of Weimar Germany.

On 6 February 1930, it was renamed Stresemannstraße after Gustav Stresemann ( 1878 – 1929 ), the first Chancellor to serve under President Ebert.

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

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 of the Chicago Sun-Times said it was " as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises ", yet praised its acting and technical execution.

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.

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.

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

Space Cowboys was critically well received and holds a 79 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, although Roger Ebert wrote that the film was, " too secure within its traditional story structure to make much seem at risk.

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 awarded American Beauty four stars out of four, and Turan said it was layered, subversive, complex and surprising, concluding it was " a hell of a picture ".

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.

* January 9 – Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin.

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.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said " While the surface of his film sparkles with sharp, ironic dialogue, deeper issues are forming, and Chasing Amy develops into a film of touching insights.

" Roger Ebert thought the two lead roles were " played to perfection by Close and Malkovich ... their arch dialogues together turn into exhausting conversational games, tennis matches of the soul.

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.

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 observed the film " cries out to be a small film-a quixotic little indie production where the daffy dialogue and weird characters could weave their coils of paranoia into great offbeat humor.

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

Roger Ebert referred to the city in his review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as a " spectacular achievement ", and showcased the filmmakers ' ability to blend digital and real sets into one piece, and comparing it to the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz.

Film critic Roger Ebert described it as a " weird masterpiece, a screw-loose war picture that sends action and humor crashing head-on into each other and spinning off into political anger.

Roger Ebert stated that " Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems.

Ebert later on even cooperated with the generals in order to prevent the country from falling into chaos, as he saw it.

Although the Weimar constitution ( which Ebert signed into law in August 1919 ) provided for the establishment of workers ' councils on different levels of society, they did not play a major part in the political life of the Weimar Republic.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four stars and commented, " It's a little amazing that established movie stars like Streep, Russell and Cher could disappear so completely into the everyday lives of these characters.

" It is one of only three films Ebert ever walked out of (" two hours into its 170 minute length "), the other two being Tru Loved and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of a possible 4 stars, noting, " It's the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself, and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, " It's a little surprising, although not boring, when it turns from a mystic travelogue into a feminist parable.

The Republic's first President, Friedrich Ebert, signed the new German constitution into law on August 11, 1919.

The constitution is named after Weimar although it was signed into law by Friedrich Ebert in Schwarzburg.

Ebert claimed that Troy " sidesteps the existence of the Greek gods, turns its heroes into action movie clichés and demonstrates that we're getting tired of computer-generated armies.

In his 1971 review of the film, Roger Ebert wrote, " Play Misty for Me is not the artistic equal of Psycho, but in the business of collecting an audience into the palm of its hand and then squeezing hard, it is supreme.

Ebert believed the film's visual effects were as revolutionary as Star Wars, taking into account that Nightmare was " filled with imagination that carries us into a new world ".