Pauline Kael was the most lauded film critic of her time. She wrote with an unparalleled vigor and passion, with brilliant insight and a ferocious wit. She showed that film criticism was worth taking ...

No figure in the relatively brief history of American film criticism has proven as iconic, distinctive, or divisive as Pauline Kael, resident iconoclast of The New Yorker‘s “Current Cinema” section ...

Pauline Kael was the most powerful and controversial film critic of her time. She was a woman in a field dominated by men. She wrote with passion, humor, insight and sometimes a surprising macho ...

Daniel Menaker channels Pauline Kael's votes on the 2011 Oscar race: "I don't think she'd like 'The King's Speech.'" By Tim Appelo Mark Wahlberg got back into fighting shape -- resurrecting his ...

Being the nation’s most celebrated movie critic is no bed of roses, says Pauline Kael. There are the hate leters, the frustration of not being able to save movies like “The Stunt Man” and “Melvin and ...

To quote the immortal title of her 1965 collection of movie reviews, Pauline Kael may have "lost it at the movies," but she infinitely renewed her wide-eyed wonder as a moviegoer in her essays for The ...

Pauline Kael, long-time New Yorker film critic, was famous for her scathing, but honest movie reviews. She took digs at many popular films like The Sound of Music and Star Wars with no inhibitions.

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 all time. ...

Pauline Kael, who is largely considered the most important movie critic of her generation, is the subject of two new books—“Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark” by Brian Kellow and “The Age of Movies: ...