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Pauline-Kael

Film Review: “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” — Rebellion Has an Expiration Date

Pauline Kael capitalized on counterculture snobbery, the pecking order of the oh-so enlightened.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Pauline-Kael, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Book Review: “Movie Freak” — A Critic Who Doesn’t Hold Back

If Owen Gleiberman has any complaint against today’s world of criticism it’s that everyone seems to be speaking in one voice.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Entertainment Weekly, Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, Owen Gleiberman, Pauline-Kael

Response: Critical Justification

A certain number of people (not huge) want to read critics who take the arts seriously, who do more than tell readers what is worth spending their money on.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: American-Repertory-Theatre, Pauline-Kael, Persona Non Grata, Theater, theater-critic, theater-criticism, theater-reviews, Thomas-Garvey

Arts Commentary: Pauline Kael’s Critical Influence — Revisited

The Hub Review features a perceptively waspish consideration of Pauline Kael’s unhealthy influence on film reviewers, taking scathing aim at a couple of her jittery heirs, A.O. Scott of the NYTimes and  Ty Burr of the Boston Globe. I particularly like Tom Garvey’s concluding paragraph: But if the Paulettes have all repudiated their maker, where’s her baleful […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film Tagged: Books, criticism, Film, film-reviewing, Pauline-Kael, Reviews

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