* 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 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.

* Ebert, Roger.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were " so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ".

It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.

Roger Casement, writing to a consular colleague in Lisbon on August 3, 1903 from Lake Mantumba in the Congo Free State, said: " The people round here are all cannibals.

It is said that the rivalry was fueled in the 1970s due to the stark contrast of the teams: the Cowboys, being more of a " flashy " team with Roger Staubach's aerial attack and the " flex " Doomsday Defense ; while the Steelers were more of a " blue-collar " team with a strong running game and the 1970s-esque Steel Curtain defense, a contrast that still exists today.

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.

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

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.

" Waiting for Godot is clearly not about track cycling, but it is said that Beckett himself did wait for French cyclist Roger Godeau ( 1920 – 2000 ; a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961 ), outside the velodrome in Roubaix.

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 ".

On one occasion, as related by Roger of Wendover, when King Henry met with papal prelates, he said, " If prelates knew how much I, in my reverence of God, am afraid of them and how unwilling I am to offend them, they would trample on me as on an old and worn-out shoe.

Roger North ( 1695 ) said ‘ Nothing comes so near or rather imitates so much an excellent voice as a cornett pipe ; but the labour of the lips is too great and it is seldom well sounded ’ ( see Wilson, 1959 ).

The effect of the scene where Lear and Gloucester meet, two tiny figures in rags in the midst of this emptiness, was said ( by the scholar Roger Warren ) to catch " both the human pathos ... and the universal scale ... of the scene.

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.

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 ".

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?

Moore acknowledged having spoken with Roger Smith at a shareholders ' meeting in 1987, before he commenced filming, but said the encounter concerned a separate topic unrelated to the film.

Film critic Roger Ebert has said, " To appreciate a film like Written on the Wind probably takes more sophistication than to understand one of Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces, because Bergman's themes are visible and underlined, while with Sirk the style conceals the message.

Roger Ebert said the film was not " as sly and has no ambition to be charming " as Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, " but in a season of dreary failed comedies it does what a comedy must: It makes us laugh.

Descriptions of Bishop differ ; Roger North wrote that " was unfortunate in his family ; for he married his own servant made, and then, for an excuse, said there was no wisdom below the girdle ".

" Of her performance in 2011's Hidden Love, Roger Ebert said " Isabelle Huppert makes one good film after another .... she is fearless.

Vizs founder and main contributor Chris Donald has said that the character of Roger Mellie was inspired by the off-screen behaviour of Rod Griffiths, a 1980s Northern UK regional TV presenter but that Mellie is actually nothing like Griffiths in fact and other presenters have been worked into the character, including Look North presenter Mike Neville.

The medieval chronicler Roger of Wendover said that the king " had Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury to act for him in the matter of the church property, Geoffrey fitz-Peter in the matter of lay property ; and these two spared no one in carrying out their orders.

In March 2011, Roger Daltrey said in an interview with the BBC that Townshend had recently experienced gradual but severe hearing loss and was now trying to save what remained of his hearing.