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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

(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 ...

The late director’s unique vision and the love that his persona inspires make it easy to forget how winding his path to ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...