Writing in an online magazine '' Hazlitt '' about Ebert 's reviews , Will Sloan argued that " t here were inevitably movies where he veered from consensus , but he was not provocative or idiosyncratic by nature " . One example of Ebert dissenting with other critics was his one-star review of the celebrated 1986 David Lynch film '' Blue Velvet '' ( " marred by sophomoric satire and cheap shots … in a way , director Lynch 's behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character " ) . He also gave a one-star review to the critically acclaimed Abbas Kiarostami film '' Taste of Cherry '' , which won the '' Palme d'Or '' at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival . Ebert later went on to add the film to a list of his most hated movies of all time . He was dismissive of the popular 1988 Bruce Willis action film '' Die Hard '' ( " inappropriate and wrongheaded interruptions reveal the fragile nature of the plot " ) , while his positive 3 out of 4 stars review of 1997 's '' Speed 2 : Cruise Control '' ( " Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure " ) is one of only three positive reviews accounting for that film 's 4 % approval rating on the reviewer aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes ( one of the two others having been written by his '' At The Movies '' co-star Gene Siskel )
1997 Cannes Film Festival
1997 Cannes Film Festival
Roger Ebert