Oh, Roger...you were a great prose stylist, but you struggled to follow movies' plots

An example from his review of this film:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/show-me-love-2000
"Early in the film, Agnes' mother throws her a birthday party (she doesn't want one), and it looks like only one guest is going to turn up--her best friend who is in a wheelchair. Mad at her parents, mad at herself, Agnes lashes out at her friend ("I don't want to be friends with a palsied cripple who listens to the Backstreet Boys!") and mocks her gift of perfume. Later, she apologizes. The friend in the wheelchair is not all that deeply upset about the insult, because she has read it--correctly--as more about Agnes than about herself."

Totally wrong. That girl was not her best friend, and Ebert makes it sound like they patched things up but they definitely did not. In fact, the "friend" was all too eager to try to curry favor with the popular crowd by amping up her homophobia and making up lies.