Film critic

François Roland Truffaut (French ; February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was screenwriter,...

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (April 17 1923 — August 30 1994) was a 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 his 1968 film if...., which won the...

Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Богдановић) (born July 30, 1939) is an American film historian, director, writer and actor. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors (which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese,...

Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the...

Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, 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 half-English, half...

Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, writer, film director, actor and comic book writer. He is also the founder of View Askew Productions. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential,...

Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE (born 17 November 1960 in London, United Kingdom) is a triple BAFTA-winning British television and radio presenter and film critic. Ross was educated, along with his brother Paul Ross, at Norlington School for Boys. He later married author...

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 columnist, actor,...

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 went to school in...

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 started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951...

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the...

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with...

Michael Medved (born October 3 1948) is an American conservative radio talk show host, film critic, and author. Michael Medved was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was raised in San Diego, California, where his scientist father worked...

Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian. He has authored numerous mainstream books on the cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. Maltin was born in New York City, the son of Jacqueline (née Gould), a...

Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was one of the world's most famous film critic. Along with on-screen partner Roger Ebert, they pioneered the popular weekly movie review TV show Siskel & Ebert until Siskel's death at age 53. Born in...

Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is a columnist/film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert. Roeper was born in Chicago,...

Christian Metz (1931-1993) 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 theory in France, Britain and the United States. In Film...

Khalid Mohammed is an Indian journalist, editor, film critic, screenwriter and film director. He is a film journalist presently with the Hindustan Times. He was formerly the lead editor for Filmfare magazine. He is the son of Hindi film actress Zubeidaa (1910-1990),...

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 criticism circles, his...

Margaret Pomeranz, AM, is an Australia film critic and television personality. Pomeranz was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened Macquarie University, and the...

David Stratton (born 1939 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England) is an Australian film critic and television personality. He attributes his passion for movies to World War II. He was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid filmgoer, where...

At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper is a movie review television program featuring film critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper, both of the Chicago Sun-Times. It airs in syndication in the United States and on CTV in Canada. It is the successor to Siskel &...

Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music album, games, movies, TV shows, DVD, and books. 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 to the source...

Joe Bob Briggs is a pseudonym and persona of John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), 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 Little Rock,...

Ray Carney, also known as Raymond Carney, Ph.D, is a prolific and controversial 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 most well known for his study of...

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 the University of...

Anthony Lane (born 1962) has been a film reviewer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine since 1993. Lane's partner is the British columnist/writer Allison Pearson. They live in Cambridge with their two young children. Lane graduated with a degree in English from Trinity...

David Brudnoy (June 5, 1940 – December 9, 2004) was a popular talk radio host in Boston from 1976 to 2004. Most recently, his regular commentary show aired on WBZ radio. He is most widely known for espousing his libertarian views on a wide range of political issues....

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 college, he worked to...

Orvar Säfström (born February 18, 1974) is one of Sweden's most popular film reviewers. Together with Emma Gray, hosted Filmkrönikan on the Swedish television network SVT from 2003 to 2006. Before that, Orvar was employed at ZTV, where he hosted two other film review...