Example sentences for: ebert

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  • The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.

  • an important and enduring movie star" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). And Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum discovers latent homosexuality in the "intense boy-boy communion" within Travolta's gang.

  • Critics find Waiting to Exhale director Forest Whitaker's latest chick flick guilty of the genre's worst defects: tear-jerking melodrama, shots of little girls with stuffed animals, and the "emotional range of a sympathy card" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Some predict that Sandra Bullock's performance--as a prom queen who returns to her hometown after her husband cheats on her--will only deepen her midcareer funk.

  • The Chicago Sun-Times ' Roger Ebert says the scenes where Grant learns to talk like a gangster are "so badly handled by Grant that the movie derails and never recovers."

  • Most critics do not admit to being offended, save one: Roger Ebert, delivering a far more negative review than most, admits he laughed all through the film but says, "I did not always feel proud of myself while I was laughing.


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