Roger Ebert

felt Tarantino-esque: sprawling with storylines, creative with structure, and full of remixed homages and influences. Roger Ebert reviewed it as one the best films of the year, "Pulp Fiction is charged up with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking, of colorful characters, of screwy dialogue and unbelievable situations, and violence and comedy." George Siskel happened to agree with Ebert about Pulp Fiction. "I think that this guy is writing some of the most original dialogue since David Mamet." He…

shelter as bombs drop on the United States, awakens 200 years later to a post-apocalyptic nightmare where radiation warped the ecosystem almost beyond recognition and humans struggle to survive (Bethesda Softworks, 2015). While pop culture critic Roger Ebert once argued that video games can never be considered an art form…

Style, In Burton’s Eyes “You find worlds that come completely out of his imagination.”(“Hollywood Outsider Tim Burton”). Film critic Roger Ebert explains his view of director Tim Burton’s style. He considers it so very unique, that it would only appear in Burton’s mind. He is the only one that would be able to create it on-screen. In Tim Burton’s movie, Edward Scissorhands, Edward, who has scissors for hands, is brought into the colorful town. At first the neighbors and other citizens welcome…

What makes a family “family,” is depended on the sacrifices you’re willing to make, even if it means death. As cheesy as it sounds, this is what I perceived the message to be in The Godfather: Part II by Francis Ford Coppola, but in the Cinema, the main protagonist Michael Corleone loses what matters the most to him, Family. You get to see him and his household collapse due to his obsession of the family business and you get to view this through great angles this flick has produced. The sequel…

The American dream is the belief that if you have to will to succeed and want success and prosperity you have an equal opportunity to do so. In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will the main character grew up with nothing, and at the end he has achieves his American dream what some might say. Everyone has their own American dream and in Good Will Hunting it was just Will’s American dream, everyone controls their fate and how successful they are in their minds, there is no cookie cutter American…

Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Fitzcarraldo. Herzog’s bias appertains to the fact that he is German and feels that America’s criminal justice system is flawed. Made clear with the other films Herzog has directed, he has never done a film like this one. Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times expresses in a review of the film, “I 've long felt Herzog 's personality is compelling and penetrating, and in evidence I could offer this film about Texans who are so different from the…

Mad World Directed by Richard Kelly, the award-winning independent psychodrama Donnie Darko (Director’s Cut released in 2004) takes viewers on a journey through the life of Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a teenage boy with the fate of the universe in his hands. What may seem at first glance as a tale of a schizophrenic teen struggling with his inner demons is actually something much more compelling; Donnie is the “living receiver” of a tangent universe, and it is up to him to save the primary…

Citizen Kane is perhaps known around the world (and especially in the United States) as one the greatest American films ever made, and created by one of America’s greatest film directors that ever lived, his bold style and unconventional techniques made him a maverick, a genius, and rebel in the entertainment industry, and like the character portrayed in the film, director Orson Welles also had his rise and fall to fame. The film begins among the desolate landscape and remains of Xanadu…

Walk the line is a musical that besides being based on a true story, it’s true emphasis is telling the love story between two people; Johnny Cash and June Carter. Having to watch it again for this assignment was actually very fun it did not seem something I had to do. I really enjoyed it even though I have already watched it many times. Throughout this essay review I will be discussing the movies merits as well as its faults. I will be utilizing other reviews to support my opinions and beliefs…

The violence is exaggerated, stylised and combined with humour throughout the movie. (Langley, 2000, p.76) The first situation of extreme violence mixed with comedy is the causal shooting of Roger. Tarantino creates an expectation through his powerful dialogues and narrative, but at the same time, Robert Ebert claims, he plays with his audience, delaying the expected murder (Bailey, 2013, p.158). As a result, the viewers response of the cold blooded murder is laughter, often followed by an…