Roger Ebert is one of my favorite critics. I don’t always agree with him — and how much less rich a world it would be if we all agreed all the time — but I usually respect his point of view.
Indeed, I’m usually less interested in reading Ebert’s thoughts on a new release I might want to see than I am in going back to one of his reviews after I’ve seen a movie, and had a chance to form my own opinion. This makes Awake in the Dark (like Ebert’s Great Movies series) a perfect reference work, especially in the areas of 1970s film, foreign films, and documentaries.
