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The Film Critic type holds people who are publicly known for film criticism.
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| x François Truffaut |
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François Roland Truffaut (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career...
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| x Lindsay Anderson |
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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was an Indian-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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| x Peter Bogdanovich |
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Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Богдановић, Serbian Latin: 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...
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| x Roger Ebert |
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Roger Joseph Ebert (pronounced /ˈiːbərt/; born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and screenwriter.
He is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for two television programs Sneak...
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| x Andrew Sarris |
Andrew Sarris (31 October 1928, Brooklyn, New York City) 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 term "auteur theory" in...
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| x Kevin Smith |
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Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director, as well as a comic book writer, author, and actor. He is also the co-founder, with Scott Mosier, of View Askew Productions and owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret...
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| x Jonathan Ross |
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Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE (born 17 November 1960 in London, England) is a triple BAFTA Award-winning English film critic and presenter of radio and television. Working extensively with the BBC, Ross has presented The Film programme since 1997, his...
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| x 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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| 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 |
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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 died in 1958, aged 40, of leukemia
He started to write about film in 1943 and was a...
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| x James Agee |
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James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) (pronounced AY-jee) 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 |
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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. Earlier in her career she was published by 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 program host and is a political commentator, film critic, and author. He identifies himself as conservative. His nationally-syndicated talk show, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the...
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| x Leonard Maltin |
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Leonard Maltin (born 18 December 1950) is an American film critic and film historian. He has authored several mainstream books on the cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.
Maltin was born in New York City, the son of Jacqueline (née...
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| x 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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| x Richard Roeper |
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Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American journalist and film critic for The Chicago Sun Times. He also co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000–2008.
Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised...
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| x Christian Metz |
Christian Metz (December 12, 1931 - September/December 7, 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...
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| x Khalid Mohammed |
Khalid Mohamed is an Indian journalist, editor, film critic, screenwriter and film director. He formerly worked for the Hindustan Times and was the lead editor for Filmfare magazine. He is the son of Hindi film actress Zubeida Begum, on whose life...
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| x Serge Daney |
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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| x Margaret Pomeranz |
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Margaret Pomeranz, AM, is an Australian film critic and television personality.
Pomeranz (née Owen) was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened...
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| x David Stratton |
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David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England) is an Australian film critic and television personality.
Born in Wiltshire in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid...
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| x 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. The...
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| x Metacritic |
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Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. 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 hyperlink...
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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 actor.
Bloom was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Thelma Louise (née Berry) and Rudolph Lewis Bloom. He was raised in...
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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 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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| x Anthony Lane |
Anthony Lane (born 1962) has been a film reviewer for The New Yorker magazine since 1993.
Lane is unmarried, but lives with the British tabloid columnist/writer Allison Pearson They reside in Cambridge. He has two children, a daughter and a son....
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| x David Brudnoy |
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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 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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| 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 |
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John I. Simon, born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925 in the city of Subotica located in the region of Bačka, then County of Bačka, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, from 1929 known as Yugoslavia (now in North Bačka District of the Autonomous...
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| x Jay Cocks |
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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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| x A. O. Scott |
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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| x 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 film review website, Ain't It Cool News. Knowles is a member of the Austin Film Critics Association.
Knowles was born in Austin, Texas, the son...
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| x Amos Vogel |
Amos Vogel (born 1921 in Vienna, Austria, as Amos Vogelbaum) was one of the most influential cineasts in New York. He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art (1974), a most unorthodox film history, and as the founder of the...
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| x Ted Baehr |
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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| x Paul Ross |
Paul Ross (born April, 1956, Leytonstone, London), UK, 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,...
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| x Fenella Kernebone |
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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| 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 |
Peter Travers is an American film critic. He has been the regular film reviewer for, in turn, People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn on ABC News Now and ABCNews.com. He is somehow related to Nick...
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| x 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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| x Tim Lucas |
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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| 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 fairly regular basis. His writing style is notable in that it makes...
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| x James Berardinelli |
James Berardinelli (born September 1967) is an American 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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| x Norman Chad |
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Norman Chad (born c. 1958) is an American sportswriter and syndicated columnist who is seen on the sports channel ESPN. Alongside sportscaster Lon McEachern, Chad is perhaps the best-known commentator on the World Series of Poker for ESPN. He also...
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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 (13 July 1905 – 7 March 1981) was a journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for over a quarter century. His reviews and articles helped shape the careers of actors, directors and screenwriters. Crowther, who...
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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 |
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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 puns, his oversized handlebar moustache, and for wearing colorful bowties. He is known to have had a rocky...
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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 Darwin, she is also a prominent film critic, journalist and radio presenter.
Born in 1966 in Australia, Spencer...
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| x Vincent Canby |
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – September 15, 2000) was an American film critic.
Canby was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Katharine Anne (née Vincent) and Lloyd Canby. He became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969 and reviewed...
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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 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 review series Reel to Real on Rogers Television.
From...
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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 wrote a regular page, "The Fright of Your Life", in Shivers magazine from 1999 until the magazine's closure in 2008. He is also the author of the following books - English Gothic: A Century of...
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| x John Russell Taylor |
John Russell Taylor (born June 19, 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 1930) 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 Monthly Film Bulletin in 1957-1958. He...
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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 WPIX on Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays @ 9:30am.. She first worked at the WB Networks and WPIX-TV New York's WB11 News at Ten for four years,...
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| x Frank Judge |
Frank Judge is an American poet, publisher, translator, film critic, and teacher.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including New Directions, The Greenfield Review, HazMat Review, Bitterroot, Invisible City, and Writer Online. His...
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