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

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

Critics that frequently admire De Palma's work include Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert and Armond White, among others.

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.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

Summing up Barrymore's appeal, Roger Ebert, in his review of 50 First Dates, described Barrymore as having a " smiling, coy sincerity ," describing the film as " ingratiating and lovable.

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

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

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a three star rating ( out of four ) describing it as " a fairly sophisticated satire.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars, praising the film for being " boldly operatic, involving family drama, secrets, generations at war, melodrama, romance and violence ".

* An article by critic Roger Ebert describing his involvement with science fiction fanzines in the 1950s.

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.

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 praised the ability of the film to spoof the " illogic of the TV show ".

Critic Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.

* 1942 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter

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.

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.

Roger Ebert discussed it in a June 2000 article and praised Strange Company's machinima setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet " Ozymandias ".

" 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.

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Roger Ebert " thought the original film was an astonishing achievement, capturing the feeling of awe and wonder we have when considering the likelihood of life beyond the Earth.

Being Roger Staubach's successor and never reaching a Super Bowl, contributed to White's being an unappreciated player, considering all of the successes he achieved for the Cowboys and the NFL during the decade of the eighties.

Which Sir Roger married Bona Fitzbernard, 4 and on account of the great affection which the same Sir Roger bore to the monastery of St. Sixburge, in the same island ,— considering that the said monastery, owing to defect of right government, had fallen to ruin ,— he, with no sparing bounty, relieved it from the greatest penury ; wherefore, among the servants of God there, he is to this day called the restorer of that house.

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 Williams had recently been thrown out, and Anne Hutchinson and her Antinomians were slugging it out with the powers-that-be.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

When Michael Morton adapted Roger Ackroyd for the stage, he removed the character of Caroline replacing her with a young girl.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

Roger Vadim ( her husband at the time ) was not content with this light fare.

When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.

Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well known as the magazine's baseball writer.

After Grindal died in 1548, Elizabeth received her education under Roger Ascham, a sympathetic teacher who believed that learning should be engaging.

* 1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.

Edward's downfall came in 1326 when his Queen Isabella travelled to her native France and then, along with her lover Roger Mortimer, invaded England.

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

Then in 1277, Maria of Antioch sold her claim to the kingdom to Charles of Anjou, who sent Roger of San Severino to represent him.

In 1326, however, Edward was deposed by an alliance of Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer.

In 1966 she also starred in Roger Corman's The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern, and in 1968 she shared the screen with Elvis Presley in Speedway — her final film.

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 ".

On 18 March 1277, he bought her claim and assumed the title of King of Jerusalem, sending Roger of San Severino as his bailli to Acre.

" 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.

King Edward II was briefly imprisoned at Monmouth Castle in 1326 after being overthrown by his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, the Earl of March.