Pauline Kael built a career as one of the most ruthless and eloquent film critics of all time, but which films did she walk out of?

This June 19 marks the 100th birthday of the late, great film and arts writer Pauline Kael (she died a week before 9/11 in 2001). And though more than seven years have passed since then ...

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 one of the most influential film critics of all time. She was most active between the late 1960s and early ...

Critic Roger Ebert gave a mixed review, applauding its relevance but not necessarily agreeing with it, calling it a “mirror ...

For the first time in my four-year tenure, several awards were decided in the fourth or fifth round of ballot tallying. We ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Ridley Scott hasn’t read reviews of his films in more than 40 years, all thanks to the iconic late critic Pauline Kael. Auteur Scott told The Hollywood Reporter that after Kael eviscerated his n ...

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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.