Roger Ebert , a film critic with Chicago Sun-Times , liked the real-life feel in American Me .
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times liked the reality that came through in the film and that it rang true : `` What I felt watching American Me , however , is that it is based on a true situation - on the reality that street gangs and prison , mixed with the drug sales that finance the process , work together to create a professional criminal class .
American Me