The late film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Gates of Heaven had given him “more to think about” than any other film he saw. He watched the movie at least thirty times, and considered it one of the ten greatest films ever made. Ebert said it was an “unclassifiable film . . . an underground legend, a litmus test for audiences, who cannot decide if it is serious or satirical, funny or sad, sympathetic or mocking.”
