Here’s a terrific essay by the great Clive James, reviewing a collection of the late, great film critic Pauline Kael’s selected reviews. When she was in her heyday, she reigned supreme over ...

Pauline Kael was an incredibly influential film critic, celebrated for her incisive and often provocative reviews. Her ...

Did Orson Welles get too much glory for “Citizen Kane”? Absolutely, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael insists in this novella-length fire-starter about the making of the greatest movie of ...

(She died in 2001.) Farran Smith Nehme has a nice appreciation of “The Pleasures of Pauline Kael” at the website of the British Film Institute. Check it out. Anyone interested in film or in ...

Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was likely the most powerful, and personal, movie critic of the 20th century. Writing for The New Yorker and publishing a dozen best-selling books, she ruthlessly pursued what ...

Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953 and joined ‘The New Yorker’ in 1968.

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DEADLINE: Early on in your career, the great New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael took notice of your work. What did that mean to you? WISEMAN: Pauline’s review of High School was the first major ...

‘You’re Cordially Invited’ is a Chaotic Battle of Wedding Parties. Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon... ‘Dog Man’ Brings a New Hero to Life Who Will Appeal to Kids. The new DreamWorks ...

Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in ...