Example sentences for: ebert

How can you use “ebert” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Roger Ebert ( Chicago Sun-Times ) sums it up: "[It's] a comedy dead zone.

  • Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.

  • Roger Ebert wrote "only 40 percent of the audience stood up and clapped," while the Los Angeles Times put the figure at 25 percent, and Daily Variety at 20 percent.

  • Roger Ebert calls it "unrelentingly corny" ( Chicago Sun-Times ). (Visit the official site.)

  • Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ) labels it "a worthy final chapter to a great director's career," and Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) raves that it's his riskiest film and "a spellbinding addition to the Kubrick canon."


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