American Beauty Mla Citation

AMERICAN BEAUTY

Given four stars by Roger Ebert, the film American Beauty was released in 1999. Ebert seemed to really like this film. Using terms like “right choice” and “embodies intelligence” when speaking of Kevin Spacey’s eyes and voice being the right actor for this film. Ebert commented that this movie was a comedy because we as views laugh at the absurdity of the hero’s problems. He feels the performances in this film walk a line between parody and simple realism. He did not seem to have anything negative to say about the actors, plot or any other aspect of this film. Calling “American Beauty” the kind of film where you prove something important, if only to yourself as opposed to the kind of victory you get in a feel-good movie.

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PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
This movie was filmed in 2012 and only given three stars by Roger Ebert. Clearly not his favorite film based on his star rating, but I’m not so sure that he didn’t like movie. The lack of negative phrases isn’t as much of a surprise as the lack of positive phases in this critique. One point made by Ebert was that this film was one his previous adolescent self would have loved. Ebert refers to other reviews this film has received both good and bad and claims they were made by previous adults. While I am unsure of what he means exactly by this he still is not making me feel as though he does not like this film. He does however state that the cast is near-ideal, leaving room for negative connotation yet he doesn’t make any.
In my opinion Roger Ebert must have enjoyed the movie “American Beauty” more than “Perks”. I am basing this observation not only on the star rating but the lack of Opinion shared in the critique of “Perks”. I feel Ebert could have given us more of his sense of judgment when it came to either of these films but then again he is the critic not me.