Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions throughout his career.

" Film critics sometimes use the term " pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters ( often including a central female character ) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences.

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Set in Paris in 1828, it was voted Best French Film of the Century in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

Screened at the 13th Venice Film Festival, it was razzed by critics in “ the atmosphere of a soccer match ”.

Savaged by critics at the 16th Venice Film Festival, the film did miserable box office and did not receive international distribution until 1964.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

In 2010, an independent documentary film called Plug & Pray premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival, in which Kurzweil and one of his major critics, the late Joseph Weizenbaum, argue about the benefits of eternal life.

Beating Federico Fellini's 8½ for first prize at the Belgium Film Festival, the film was hailed by foreign critics as a brilliant reworking of the Western genre.

Many critics associations, such as New York Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, chose Saving Private Ryan as Film of the Year.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

The July / August 2009 issue of Film Comment polled several critics on the best films to win the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

It was also voted the " Best Japanese Film ever " in a 1979 Kinema Junpo critics ’ poll.

Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 97 % of sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it got a rating average of 7. 4 out of 10.

Film critics and stooge fans alike have cited Curly as the most popular member of the team.

555 of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine Film Daily named it the best film of 1942.

Malden's proposal was bold, as film festivals, critics associations, and the American Film Institute, had already refused to bestow similar honors because of Kazan's testimony given nearly 50 years earlier.

Kazan was already " denied accolades " from the American Film Institute, and other film critics associations.

On the Silver Globe premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1988, with some critics proclaiming it a ruined masterpiece.

Film critics noted that the British film 28 Days Later ( 2002 ) and its sequel 28 Weeks Later both feature a rabies-type plague ravaging Great Britain, analogous to I Am Legend.

Ebert is one of the principal critics featured in Gerald Peary's 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

The film eventually premiered at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was well received by critics, with Time Out New York writer Mike D ' Angelo calling it " the best film saw in Berlin.

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

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 ".

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.

Film critic Roger Ebert speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( in which the samurai shaves off his topknot, a sign of honor among samurai, in order to pose as a monk to rescue a boy from a kidnapper ) could be the origin of the practice, now common in action movies, of introducing the main hero with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot.

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.

Film critic Roger Ebert lauded the film, stating that Brando and Kazan changed acting in American movies forever and then adding it to his " Great Movies " list.

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.

Since 1999, he has hosted the annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois.

Roger Ebert founded his own film festival, Ebertfest, in his home town of Champaign, Illinois and is also a regular fixture at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

* Roger Ebert's Book of Film ( ISBN 0-393-04000-3 ) – a Norton Anthology of a century of writing about the movies

* Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival

Film critic Roger Ebert lauded Spock's death: " He makes a choice in STAR TREK II that would be made only by a hero, a fool, or a Vulcan.

" Film critic Roger Ebert gave Mulan three and a half stars out of four in his written review.

Film critic Roger Ebert, who normally disdains any attempt to keep films from any audience, has supported the non-release position, claiming that most Disney films become a part of the consciousness of American children, who take films more literally than do adults.

Maryam was featured in Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.

Ebertfest: Roger Ebert's Film Festival, originally known as Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival but commonly referred to as simply Ebertfest, is an annual film festival held every April in Champaign, Illinois, United States, organized by the College of Media at the University of Illinois.

" Film critic Roger Ebert calls it " just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie ".

Film critic Roger Ebert, who had given negative reviews to all three of Curtis's 1980 films, said that Curtis " is to the current horror film glut what Christopher Lee was to the last one-or Boris Karloff was in the 1930s ".

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote:

Film critic Roger Ebert commented on the edit – " While the original film should, of course, be preserved for historical purposes, there is no need for the general release version to perpetrate racist stereotypes in a film designed primarily for children.

Film critic Roger Ebert suggests, in his " Great Movies " article, that she may not even be a filmmaker but just a groupie who uses fake credentials to gain access to famous people.

Film critic Roger Ebert credits Lester with constructing " a new grammar ":