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Film critic list
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for the Film domain
The Film Critic type holds people who are publicly known for film criticism.
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| François Truffaut |
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François Roland Truffaut (; February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was...
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| Lindsay Anderson |
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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (April 17 1923 — August 30 1994) was an India-born English feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for...
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| Peter Bogdanovich |
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Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Богдановић, Latin: Petar Bogdanović) (born July 30, 1939,) is an American film historian, director, writer, actor and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors (which included William...
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| Roger Ebert |
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Roger Joseph Ebert born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter.
He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program...
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| Andrew Sarris | Film theorist |
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...
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| Kevin Smith |
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Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, writer, film director, actor and comic book writer. He is also the founder of View Askew Productions along with Scott Mosier. Smith's films are often set in his home state of...
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| Jonathan Ross |
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Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE (born 17 November 1960 in London, England) is a triple BAFTA-winning British film critic and presenter of radio and television.
Ross is the son of British actress and radio presenter Martha Ross, grew up in Leytonstone and...
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| Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer.
Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine...
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| Dilys Powell | Person |
Elizabeth Dilys Powell (20 July 1901 – 3 June 1995) was a British journalist, author and film critic.
She was born into a middle class family in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Her mother was Mary Jane Lloyd; her father, Thomas Powell, a bank manager. She...
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| André Bazin |
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André Bazin (April 18, 1918 – November 11, 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
Bazin was born in Angers, France, in 1918. He started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the film magazine...
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| James Agee | Film writer |
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family ...
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| Pauline Kael |
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Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached...
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| Michael Medved |
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Michael Medved (born October 3 1948) is an American radio host, conservative political commentator, film critic, and author. His nationally-syndicated radio program, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the United States on Salem Radio Network...
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| Leonard Maltin |
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Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian. He has authored numerous mainstream books on the cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.
Maltin was born in New York City, the son of Jacqueline ...
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| Gene Siskel |
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Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic. Alongside colleague Roger Ebert, he pioneered the classic review show, Siskel & Ebert at the Movies.
Born in Chicago, Siskel attended Culver Academies,...
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| Richard Roeper | Person |
Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and, from September 2000 through August 2008 , co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert.
Roeper was...
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| Christian Metz | Film theorist |
Christian Metz (1931-1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiotics to film. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain and the United...
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| Khalid Mohammed | Film writer |
Khalid Mohammed is an Indian journalist, editor, film critic, screenwriter and film director. He is a film journalist presently with the Hindustan Times. He was formerly the lead editor for Filmfare magazine.
He is the son of Hindi film actress...
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| Serge Daney | Person |
Serge Daney (1944 - 1992) was an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image. Although highly regarded in French and European film...
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| Margaret Pomeranz |
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Margaret Pomeranz, AM, is an Australia film critic and television personality.
Pomeranz was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened Macquarie...
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| David Stratton |
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David Stratton (born 10 September 1939 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England) is an Australian film critic and television personality.
He attributes his passion for movies to World War II. He was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his...
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| Ebert & Roeper |
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At the Movies (formerly Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, and later, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper) is a movie review television program, produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, in which two critics share their opinions of newly released films....
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| Metacritic |
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Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music album, games, movies, TV shows, DVD, and books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a...
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| Joe Bob Briggs | Person |
Joe Bob Briggs is a pseudonym and persona of John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), a syndicated American film critic, writer and actor.
Bloom was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Thelma Louise (née Berry) and Rudolph Lewis Bloom. He was...
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| Ray Carney | Person |
Ray Carney, also known as Raymond Carney, Ph.D, is an American scholar and critic, primarily known for his work as a film theorist, although he writes extensively on American art and literature as well. He is known for his study of the works of...
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| James Rocchi | Person |
James Rocchi is the former head film critic for Netflix Corporation. He currently writes reviews for Cinematical.com. He is also a reviewer for KPIX TV in San Francisco, and writes Rocchi's Retro Rental for SFgate.com.
Mr. Rocchi is an alumnus of...
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| Anthony Lane | Person |
Anthony Lane (born 1962) has been a film reviewer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine since 1993.
Lane's partner is the British columnist/writer Allison Pearson. They live in Cambridge with their two young children.
Lane graduated with a degree in...
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| David Brudnoy |
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David Brudnoy (June 5, 1940 – December 9, 2004) was a popular talk radio host in Boston from 1976 to 2004. His radio talk show aired on WBZ radio. He was known for espousing his libertarian views on a wide range of political issues, in a manner that...
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| Joel Siegel | Person |
Joel Siegel (July 7, 1943 – June 29, 2007) 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...
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| Orvar Säfström | Person |
Orvar Säfström (born February 18, 1974) is one of Sweden's most popular film reviewers. Together with Emma Gray, hosted Filmkrönikan on the Swedish television network SVT from 2003 to 2006. Before that, Orvar was employed at ZTV, where he hosted two...
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| John Simon | Person |
John Simon (born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925) is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. Born in Subotica, Serbia, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.), and has been a regular contributor to a number of...
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| Jay Cocks | Film writer |
Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.
He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before graduating to film writing.
As a...
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| A. O. Scott | Person |
Anthony O. "Tony" Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and critic. He is best known as a film critic for The New York Times.
Scott grew up the son of two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is the Harold F. Linder Professor...
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| Harry Knowles |
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Harry Jay Knowles (born December 11, 1971) is an American online film critic known for his movie news and review website, Ain't It Cool News.
Knowles was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Helen Jane (née Harrison) and Jarrell Jay Knowles. His early...
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| Amos Vogel | Person |
Amos Vogel (born 1921 in Vienna, Austria, as Amos Vogelbaum) is among the most influential cineasts of the 20th century. He is best known for his book Film as a Subversive Art (1974), still among the most unorthodox film histories ever published,...
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| Ted Baehr | Person |
M. Robert E. Theodore Baehr (born 31 May 1946) is an American media critic and chairman of The Christian Film and Television Commission. He publishes MOVIEGUIDE, a website and biweekly journal that evaluates motion pictures and other entertainment...
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| Paul Ross | Person |
Paul Simon Ross (born April, 1956) is an English journalist, television editor, and media personality. He is the elder brother of presenter Jonathan Ross and is also a film reviewer. He has also been presenting Most Haunted Live! from May 2006...
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| Fenella Kernebone | Person |
Fenella Kernebone is most noted as a radio and TV presenter, based in Sydney, Australia.
Kernebone was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, New South Wales. Kernebone got her radio experience at Sydney community radio...
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| Jonathan Rosenbaum | Person |
Jonathan Rosenbaum (b. 27 February, 1943) is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65. He has published and edited numerous books and has contributed...
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| David Thomson | Person |
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...
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| Peter Travers | Person |
Peter Travers (fl. late 20th century) is an American film critic. He has been the regular film reviewer for, in turn, People and Rolling Stone magazines.
According to efilmcritic.com, Travers is the most blurb film critic. Prior to writing for...
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| John Moore |
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John Sanford Moore (born June 5, 1966), better known as John Moore, is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster, film critic, actor, voice actor and comedian. He works for CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario.
Moore was born in Montreal, Quebec, and...
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| Tim Lucas | Author |
Tim Lucas (b. May 30, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a film critic, biographer, novelist, poet, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher/editor of the video review magazine Video Watchdog.
Lucas was the only child of Marion Frank Lucas, a typesetter and...
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| The Filthy Critic |
The Filthy Critic (or "Filthy," as he calls himself) is an online persona of Matt Weatherford, a film critic. Starting in 1998, Filthy's reviews have appeared on his web site on a fairly regular basis. His writing style is notable in that it makes...
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| James Berardinelli | Person |
James Berardinelli (born September 1967) is an online film critic.
Berardinelli was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and spent his early childhood in Morristown. At the age of nine, he moved to Cherry Hill. He attended the University of...
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| Norman Chad |
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Norman Chad (born c. 1958) is a Los Angeles-based sportswriter and syndicated columnist who is frequently seen on the sports channel ESPN. Alongside sportscaster Lon McEachern, Chad is perhaps the best-known commentator on the World Series of Poker...
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| Leslie Halliwell | Person |
Leslie Robert James Halliwell (23 February, 1929 – 21 January, 1989) was a British motion picture historian and encyclopedist who shaped domestic tastes through his career as a buyer for television station.
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England,...
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| Anton Bitel | Person |
Dr Anton Bitel (born 1970) is a film critic, and an occasional tutor in Classics at the University of Oxford.
Born in Australia, Anton obtained a Master's degree and Doctorate from the University of Oxford. His doctorate (Classics) was concerned...
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| Bosley Crowther | Person |
Francis Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was a film critic for The New York Times for over a quarter century.
Born in Lutherville, Maryland, Crowther moved as a child to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he published a...
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| Rex Reed | Person |
Rex Taylor Reed (born October 2, 1938) is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column "On the Town with Rex Reed" for the New York Observer.
Reed was born in Fort Worth...
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| Gene Shalit |
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Gene Shalit (born March 25, 1932 in New York City) is the film and book critic on NBC's The Today Show. He is known for his frequent use of pun, his oversized handlebar moustache, and for wearing colorful bowtie. He is known to have had a rocky...
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| Drew McWeeny | Film writer |
Drew McWeeny (born May 26, 1970), also known by his pseudonym Moriarty, is a film critic, screenwriter, and the west coast editor of the Ain't It Cool News website.
He attended, but did not graduate from, Florida State University, instead choosing...
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| Megan Spencer | Person |
Megan Spencer is an Australian documentary film maker who specializes in the 'guerrilla video' style of documentary portraiture. Based in Melbourne, she is also a prominent film critic and journalist.
Born in 1966 in Australia, Spencer studied...
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| Vincent Canby | Person |
Vincent Canby (July 27 1924 – September 15 2000) was an American film critic.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Canby became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969. He was an enthusiastic supporter of many filmmakers, notably Woody Allen,...
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