It’s hard to believe with all the divergent opinions floating around today about movies on Twitter, Facebook, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and dozens of other outlets, that there was a time when a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I could demolish any one idea in the history of film criticism, I think it would be the often stated canard that Pauline Kael ...

Anyone who has ever read a word of her intensely personal and influential film criticism will enjoy “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael,” but also will wonder one thing: What would Kael have ...

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 ...

She came from Berkeley, and revolutionized film criticism. It’s hard to believe from today’s vantage point, but the liveliest, most intelligent cultural discussions in late-20th-century America — as ...

David Fincher’s “Mank,” a drama set in the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s and focusing on “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, has found itself embroiled in an argument that began when ...