Five Hollywood careers almost destroyed by Pauline Kael, including Stanley Kubrick, Robert Redford, Orson Welles, Veronica ...

The director Pauline Kael never wanted to watch again was John Woo, and she made the decision after being decidedly unimpressed with a 1997 film.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 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.

“Maybe I’m sick, but I want to see that again.” So overheard the film critic Pauline Kael after a showing of Blue Velvet. David Lynch, the filmmaker whose singular vision reshaped the ...

DEADLINE: Early on in your career, the great New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael took notice of your work. What did that mean ...

“Nobody should be asked not to like Paul Newman.” This is how New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael summed up her review of the late star’s performance in the 1977 hockey-comedy classic Slap Sho ...

Let’s face it: film criticism isn’t exciting as it used to be. Gone are the days when fans waited expectantly to see how Pauline Kael of the New Yorker would write up Brian de Palma’s latest offering, ...

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 ...