[adam]

Ebert is kind of strange. He's praised movies I hated (SWAT) and hated movies I adore (Fear and Loathing). He does this with enough regularity that I can't dismiss it as the occasional exception or whatever. I think he might be too concerned with giving commercial movies generally favorable reviews...that is, I think he might know better than some of the schlock he praises, but he tries to approach it with a "my review should be appropriate for the lowest common denominator" kind of attitude. I mean, that makes sense, that's his business, but I've found that I can't put a lot of stock in his reviews, either way. I still read them, though.