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 The ...
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 ...
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 ...