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| x François Truffaut |
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François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker, one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film...
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| x Lindsay Anderson |
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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was an Indian-born, British 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...
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| x Peter Bogdanovich |
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Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian: Петар Богдановић, Petar Bogdanović, born July 30, 1939) is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin,...
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| x Roger Ebert |
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Roger Joseph Ebert ( /ˈiːbərt/; born June 18, 1942) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Ebert is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun...
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| x Andrew Sarris |
Andrew Sarris (born 31 October 1928, Brooklyn, New York City) is an American film critic and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism.
Sarris is generally credited with popularizing the auteur theory in the U.S. and coining the term...
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| x Kevin Smith |
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Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob....
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| x Jonathan Ross |
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Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE (born 17 November 1960) is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross from 2001 until he left the BBC in 2010. Ross began hosting a new chat...
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| x Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine...
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| x Dilys Powell |
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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| x André Bazin |
André Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
Bazin was born in Angers, France, in 1918. He died in 1958, age 40, due to leukemia.
Bazin started to write about film in 1943 and...
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| x James Agee |
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James Rufus Agee ( /ˈeɪdʒiː/ AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A...
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| x Pauline Kael |
Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic.
Kael was known for her ...
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| x Michael Medved |
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Michael Medved (born October 3, 1948) is an American radio host, author, political commentator and film critic. His Seattle, Washington-based nationally syndicated talk show, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the U.S. on Salem Radio Network....
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| x Leonard Maltin |
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Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.
Maltin was born in New York City, son of singer Jacqueline (née Gould),...
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| x Gene Siskel |
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Eugene Kal "Gene" Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted the popular review show Siskel & Ebert At the Movies from 1975 until his...
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| x Richard Roeper |
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Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000–2008, as the...
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| x Christian Metz |
Christian Metz (December 12, 1931, Béziers – September 7, 1993, Paris) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiology to film. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on...
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| x Serge Daney |
Serge Daney (June 4, 1944 - June 12, 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...
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| x Margaret Pomeranz |
Margaret Pomeranz AM (born 14 July 1944) is an Australian film critic and television personality.
Pomeranz (née Owen) was born in 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then...
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| x David Stratton |
David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939) is an English-Australian film critic and television personality.
Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid...
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| x Joe Bob Briggs |
John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer and comic performer.
Bloom was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Thelma Louise (née Berry) and Rudolph Lewis Bloom. He was...
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| x Ray Carney |
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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| x James Rocchi |
James Rocchi is a freelance film critic living and working in Los Angeles. He currently writes reviews for MSN.com, amctv.com, Redbox, Mother Jones Magazine and other outlets. He is a current member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Society, the...
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| x Anthony Lane |
Anthony Lane (born 1962) is a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.
Lane lives in Cambridge with Allison Pearson, a British writer and former Daily Mail columnist. They have a son, Thomas (born August 1999) and daughter (born January 1996),...
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| x David Brudnoy |
David Brudnoy (June 5, 1940 – December 9, 2004) was an American 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...
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| x Joel Siegel |
Joel Steven 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.
The winner of multiple Emmy Awards, Siegel also worked as a radio disk jockey and an advertising...
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| x Orvar Säfström |
Orvar Säfström (born February 18, 1974) is one of Sweden's most popular film reviewers and video game journalists. Together with Emma Gray, he hosted Filmkrönikan on the Swedish television network SVT from 2003 to 2006. Before that, Orvar was...
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| x John Simon |
John Ivan Simon (born May 12, 1925) is an American author and literary, theater, and film critic.
Simon was born in Subotica, Bačka, County of Bačka, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, later, (after 1929) known as Yugoslavia (now North...
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| x Jay Cocks |
Jay Cocks (born John C. Cocks, Jr., 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 moving into film writing...
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| x A. O. Scott |
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Anthony Oliver Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and critic. He is a chief film critic for The New York Times, along with Manohla Dargis.
Scott was born to two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is the Harold F. Linder...
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| x Harry Knowles |
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Harry Jay Knowles (born December 11, 1971) is a film critic and writer known for his website called Ain't It Cool News. Knowles is a member of the Austin Film Critics Association.
Harry Jay Knowles was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Jarrell Jay...
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| x Amos Vogel |
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Amos Vogel (born Amos Vogelbaum; April 18, 1921 – April 24, 2012) was one of the most influential cineastes in New York City. He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art (1974) and as the founder of the New York City...
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| x Ted Baehr |
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M. Robert E. Theodore Baehr (born 31 May 1946) is an American media critic and Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc. He is publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Movieguide, a website and...
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| x Paul Ross |
Paul Ross (born April 1956 in Leytonstone, London) is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.
Ross was educated, along with his brother, at...
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| x Fenella Kernebone |
Fenella Kernebone is an Australian radio and television presenter, based in Sydney.
Kernebone was just three months old when her family moved to Homebush, New South Wales, in Sydney’s west. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College,...
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| x Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 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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| x Peter Travers |
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Peter Travers is an American film critic, who has written for, in turn, People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn on ABC News Now and ABCNews.com.
Travers joined Rolling Stone in 1989 after a four-year...
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| x John Moore |
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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| x Tim Lucas |
Tim Lucas is a film director, film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher.
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| x 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 regular basis. His writing style is notable in that it makes...
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| x James Berardinelli |
James Berardinelli (born September 25, 1967) is an American online film critic.
Berardinelli was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and spent his early childhood in Morristown, New Jersey. At the age of nine years, he relocated to the township of...
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| x Norman Chad |
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Norman Chad is an American sportswriter and syndicated columnist who is seen on the sports channel ESPN. He also was an occasional guest host on the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption and has appeared as both host and movie critic on the ESPN Classic...
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| x Anton Bitel |
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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| x Bosley Crowther |
Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years. His reviews and articles helped shape the careers of actors, directors and screenwriters, though his...
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| x Rex Reed |
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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| x Gene Shalit |
Gene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is a film and book critic. He has filled these roles on NBC's The Today Show since January 15, 1973. He is known for his frequent use of puns, his oversized moustache, and for wearing colorful bowties.
He has been...
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| x Drew McWeeny |
Drew McWeeny (born May 26, 1970 ), also known by his pseudonym Moriarty, is a film critic, screenwriter, and the former west coast editor of the Ain't It Cool News website. In a December 2008 review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, McWeeny...
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| x Megan Spencer |
Megan Spencer is an Australian documentary film maker who specializes in the 'guerrilla video' style of documentary portraiture. Based in Bendigo, she is also a prominent film critic, journalist and radio presenter.
Born in 1966 in Australia,...
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| x Vincent Canby |
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film critic who became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969 and reviewed more than 1000 films during his tenure there.
Canby was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of...
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| x David Walsh |
David Walsh, born in New York City, New York, is a film critic and political writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
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| x Geoff Pevere |
Geoff Pevere (born in October, 1957 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian and arts and media critic. He is the outgoing film critic for the Toronto Star, and, starting in 2008, will be the paper's book critic. He is also a host of the movie...
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| x Jean-Pierre Bouyxou |
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou (born 16 January 1946) is a French film critic, author, filmmaker and actor.
He started his career as a writer in 1964 when his article was published in fanzines (Mercury, Lunatique). Some other magazines he wrote for were...
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| x Jonathan Rigby |
Jonathan Rigby is an English film critic and actor who has written the following books - English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (2000), Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History (2001), Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (2005), American Gothic:...
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| x John Russell Taylor |
John Russell Taylor (born 19 June 1935) is an English critic and author. He is the author of critical studies of British theatre; of critical biographies of such important figures in Anglo-American film as Alfred Hitchcock, Alec Guinness, Orson...
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| x David Robinson |
David Robinson (born 6 August 1930 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire) is a British film critic and author. He started writing for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin in the 1950s, becoming Assistant Editor of Sight and Sound and Editor of the...
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| x Toni Senecal |
Antonia "Toni" Senecal is the producer and host of Toni On! television travel series which is broadcast on NYC Life on Wednesdays at 12:30am and 9pm, Fridays at 1:30pm, and Saturdays at 11am. She first worked at the WB Networks and WPIX-TV New York...
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| x Frank Judge |
Frank Judge is an American poet, publisher, translator, journalist, film critic, teacher, and arts administrator.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including New Directions, The Greenfield Review, The New Orleans Review, The...
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| x Daniel M. Kimmel |
Daniel M. Kimmel (born 1955) is an American film critic, writer, and college media professor, currently teaching at Suffolk University. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a degree in law from Boston University.
Kimmel is a...
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| x Eddie Muller |
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Eddie Muller is a writer based in San Francisco. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, he is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film...
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| x Mick LaSalle |
Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American film critic and the author of two books on pre-Hays Code Hollywood. Up to March 2008, he had written inmore than 1550 reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and he has been podcasting them since...
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