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 ...

Initially Sidney Lumet was delighted to have Pauline covering the picture, as he had been following her work for some time and found her one of the most perceptive and articulate critics to come along ...

Ridley Scott hasn’t read reviews of his films in more than 40 years, all thanks to the iconic late critic Pauline Kael. Auteur Scott told The Hollywood Reporter that after Kael eviscerated his ...

Not long after I became a movie critic, a journalist friend told me he was considering taking a trip to see Pauline Kael at her home in Great Barrington, Mass. He didn’t know Kael, other than as the ...

On the centennial of Pauline Kael's birth, the Quad Cinema is presenting Losing It at the Movies, a retrospective including both films that received her highest praise and those she viciously tore ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. Kael charged that studios were clamping down ...

Pauline Kael reviewed films for The New Yorker for more than 20 years, and she was and still is widely acknowledged as considered the most influential American film critic. In this Fresh Air interview ...

Pauline Kael, long-time New Yorker film critic, was famous for her scathing, but honest movie reviews. She took digs at many popular films like The Sound of Music and Star Wars with no inhibitions.

Say this for Pauline Kael -- you always knew where she stood. No waffling obscurantism for Kael, and she never descended to the cover-all-bases critical absurdities that playwright Edward Albee ...

Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in ...