Pauline Kael was known for her scathing and controversial reviews, but no director was as consistently in her bad graces as ...

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 ...

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

(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.

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman discusses his work as Film at Lincoln Center holds a five-week retrospective of his ...

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“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 to you? WISEMAN: Pauline’s review of High School was the first major ...