September 4 -- NEW YORK (Reuters) — Pauline Kael, whose long and passionate movie reviews in the New Yorker mobilized and divided fans and filmmakers alike, died on Monday at her home in Great ...

Marshall Curry's film features an assortment of New Yorker luminaries, as well as stars like Sarah Jessica Parker and Jon ...

Pauline Kael is arguably the most studied and celebrated film critic of all time, praised by many as one of the few writers to elevate the act of criticism to an art form. Kael was film critic for ...

It's a measure of Pauline Kael's enduring influence as a film critic that in the years between her 1991 retirement and her 2001 death, fans in search of a Kael fix would seek out and discuss the ...

Pauline Kael Biographer: Why Writing About the Legendary Film Critic Was a ‘Tremendous Challenge’ (Q&A) In an interview with THR chief film critic Todd McCarthy, Brian Kellow also discusses ...

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 ...

Reading Brian Kellow’s Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, which is thorough and respectful but still full of depressing revelations, brought Kael the flawed human being a little too close.

By far Pauline's biggest undertaking in the fall of 1965 was an assignment from Life: a report on the filming of Mary McCarthy's The Group. The producer, Charles K. Feldman, had bought the movie ...

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. -- Movie critic Pauline Kael, a brash, witty champion of artistic quality who thrashed both facile commercialism and self-indulgent pretense from her lofty perch at The New ...

The director’s “The Card Counter,” starring Oscar Isaac, features the latest in a long line of troubled loners stretching back to “Taxi Driver” ’s Travis Bickle.

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 ...