- Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel.
- David Edelstein
David Edelstein (born 1959) is the chief film critic for "New York Magazine", as well as the film critic for NPR's "Fresh Air" and "CBS Sunday Morning". Edelstein became a journalist after graduating from Harvard in 1981. He is often associated with friend, fellow film critic, and iconoclast Pauline Kael, to whom he was close. He has previously been a film critic for "Slate" (1996-2005), the "New York Post", the "Village Voice", …
- Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell (born 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American public intellectual and a former film critic for "The New York Times". Previously, he was a film critic for the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram", the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" and "The Detroit Free Press". He graduated from Wayne State University, where he majored in English. In his reviews, he takes on a freewheeling, some might say stream of consciousness style, …
- Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr is an American film critic. He was a critic at the "The Chicago Reader". As of 2007, he writes a weekly column on DVD releases for "The New York Times", in addition to occasional pieces on individual films or filmmakers. He also maintains a film blog with reviews of films and occasional comment pieces.
- Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman (born 24 February 1959) is a film critic for "Entertainment Weekly," a position he has held since the magazine's launch in 1990. From 1981-89, he worked at the "Boston Phoenix". He was recommended for the position by Pauline Kael, …
- Gene Siskel
Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 - February 20, 1999) was one of the world's most successful film critics. Along with on-screen partner Roger Ebert, they pioneered the popular weekly movie review TV show "Siskel & Ebert" until Siskel's death at age 53.
- A. O. Scott
Anthony O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, …
- A.O. Scott
A.O. "Tony" Scott (b. July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, …
- Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. He is the author of many books on film, including "Film: The Front Line 1983" (1983), "Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism" (1995), "Moving Places: A Life at the Movies" (1980; reprint 1995), "Movies as Politics" (1997) and "Essential Cinema" (2004). His most popular work is "Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See" (2002).
- Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is a columnist/film critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times" and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted "Ebert & Roeper" with fellow film critic Roger Ebert.
- Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 - September 3, 2001) was a Jewish-American film critic who wrote for "The New Yorker" magazine from 1968 to 1991. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style.
- Christopher Null
Christopher Null is a columnist and blogger for Yahoo! Tech, and is the founder and editor in chief of Filmcritic.com.
- Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a film critic for the Boston Globe, a position he has held since July 2002. For ten years prior to that, he worked for Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's chief video critic, and also covered film, music, theater, books, and the internet. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, where he helped program the Cinemax pay-cable service.
- Michael Medved
Michael Medved (born October 3 1948) is an American, conservative radio talk show host, film critic and author.
- Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson is a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she writes the Thompson on Hollywood blog. Born and raised in New York City, she’s a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, London Observer and Wired. She served as the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter from January, 2005 to March, 2007 and before that was the West Coast Editor of Premiere, from 1996 to 2002.
- Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, is a U.S. film critic and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism. He is generally credited with popularising this theory in the Americas and coining the half-English, half-French term, "auteur theory," in his essay, "Notes on the Auteur Theory," which was inspired by critics writing in "Cahiers du Cinéma".
- Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan is an American film critic who was born in Brooklyn, New York. A reviewer for the "Los Angeles Times", he also provides regular reviews for "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio.
- Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin reports that this is a "lackluster account of a shakedown racket involving a photography school of nudes." Sounds OK to me but, apparently, the script is not worthy of the cast. Cuties in abbreviated outfits which appear on the one-sheet poster do not (*sigh*) include our gal. Click on the little image and see Hazel being led away by police in the last scene of the film.
- Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy is an American film critic active since the early 1980s.
- Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss is a writer for "Time" magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports, and has distinguished himself for his clever way with words. During his decades of work, he has helped draw attention to the role of the screenwriter, as opposed to the director, in the creation of movies.
- Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern is the film critic for The Wall Street Journal. His movie reviews appear each Friday in the "Weekend & Leisure" section of the newspaper, and he writes a column about the movie industry which appears in the paper every other Saturday. Morgenstern is based in Santa Monica, California. He joined the "Journal" in 1995. He was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times before becoming a theater and movie critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1959.
- Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a film critic for "Time" magazine, having also written for "Life" magazine and the "Los Angeles Times Book Review". Schickel was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. He has also lectured at Yale University and University of Southern California's School of Film and Television.
- Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis (born c. 1961) is one of the chief film critics for "The New York Times". She was formerly a film writer at the "Village Voice", the film critic for the "Los Angeles Times", and the editor of the film section at "LA Weekly". She has written for a variety of publications, including "Film Comment" and "Sight and Sound". Dargis grew up in Manhattan's East Village, and is a 1979 graduate of Hunter College High School.
- Joe Leydon
Joseph Patrick Leydon (born August 22, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an award-winning film critic and historian. Currently a critic and correspondent for Variety, the "show business bible," and a contributing writer for MovieMaker magazine, he is the author of "Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See" (Michael Wiese Productions), and host of http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ and the website http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/.
- Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
- Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith is an American film critic and frequent contributer to the "New York Post".
- Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh is an American film critic and the author of several books about cinema.
- Peter Travers
Peter Travers is the film critic for "Rolling Stone" magazine.
- David Denby
David Denby is an American film critic who writes for "The New Yorker". At present (2007) he shares this role with Anthony Lane. Denby previously reviewed films for New York magazine. In his 1986 essay, "Can The Movies Be Saved?", Denby made an eerily prescient comment regarding the current president of the United States. Discussing the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he remarked that Ferris was like George Bush, Jr., …
- Joel Siegel
Joel Siegel was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show "Good Morning America" for over 25 years. Born to a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles, California, he graduated "cum laude" from UCLA. During college, he worked to register black voters in Georgia, and he spoke frequently of having met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris is a film critic at "Boston Globe". Before that he wrote for the "San Francisco Examiner", and later at the "San Francisco Chronicle". He also wrote for and edited the Culture section for "Student.Com". He graduated from Yale University in 1997 and grew up in Philadelphia. He now lives in Cambridge. At the "Globe" he reviews films along side Ty Burr.
- Mick Lasalle
Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is the film critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the author of two books on pre-code Hollywood. As of August 2006, he has written over 1370 reviews ; he has been podcasting his film reviews since September 2005. He is the author of "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood", a history/critical study of the actresses who worked during the pre-censorship "pre"-Code" era of 1929-1934.
- J. Hoberman
Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for "The Village Voice", a post he has held since 1988.
- Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane (born 1962) has been a film reviewer on "The New Yorker" magazine since 1993. His writing has been frequently praised for its style and wit. Lane is married to the British tabloid columnist and chick-lit writer Allison Pearson. They live in Cambridge, England and have two young children.
- David Thomson
David Thomson (born 1941 in London, UK) is a noted film critic in the United States and the author of the lauded "New Biographical Dictionary of Film". Thomson was a teacher of film studies at Dartmouth College and is a regular contributor to "The New York Times", "Film Comment", "Movieline", "The New Republic", and Salon.com.
- Harry Knowles
Harry Jay Knowles (born December 11, 1971 in Austin, Texas) is an online film critic best known for his movie news and review website, "Ain't It Cool News". He also appears in "Sky Movies News" for Sky Digital, and since April 2006, as the film critic for "Penthouse" magazine.
- Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich Serbian Cyrillic Петар Богдановић(born July 30, 1939) is a Serbian-American film director, writer and actor. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors (which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola, among others), and was particularly relevant during the 1970s with his film "The Last Picture Show".
- Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode (born Mark Fairey on 2 July 1963) is an English film critic who regularly writes for "Sight and Sound" magazine and "The Observer" newspaper. He is most famous for reviewing films on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Five Live show on Friday afternoons, and is also the resident movie critic for "The Culture Show". He is also a critic on other branches of the arts for the BBC2 programme "Newsnight Review", …
- François Truffaut
François began to assiduously go to the movies at 7. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who becomes his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army. In 1953, he published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In this magazine, Truffaut and some of his friends as...
- James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli (born September 1967, New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an online film critic.