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Film criticism's demise has been eulogized by endless film festival panelists--mostly male, mostly white. Yet, that waning power still goes largely unshared with women (and people of color). 'Film criticism [...]

Byline: CLAUDE BRODESSER-AKNER Having spent the last several years marginalizing film reviewers either by making 'critic-proof'' blockbusters or by refusing to screen certain films for critics at all, Hollywood has [...]

So I get this call from a publicist pal who could hardly stop giggling. 'Did you hear about Roger?' she asked. She didn't use the name Roger, though. She employed [...]

CRIX' PICKS NEW YORK Spy Game Black Knight Studio U Fox Release date Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Variety Review date Nov. 19-25 This issue Adams (US Weekly) Anderson (Newsday) MIXED […]

There have been a number of articles written about the declining influence of film critics. But in the U.K., there's at least one critic whom film pros wish were a [...]

NEW YORK From the nation's newspapers and magazines to the air waves to cyberspace, America is teeming sea to sea with film reviews. But if one review outlet still towers […]

Reviewers get thumbs-down from filmmakers Anthony Lane, phone your agent. Based on Variety's polling of four dozen filmmakers in Hollywood and Gotham, the New Yorker film critic scores positively in […]

Little boys are not the only ones who cry wolf. Film critics do, too, for most of any given year that is, until that last-minute push of high-profile year-end releases [...]

The Oscar race has begun in earnest, with a few good movies on release and some terrible ones. I agree with all the praise for Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips [...]

This past week, the Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, and their producer Jerry Bruckheimer, complained that poor (and, they alleged, dishonest) reviews killed their movie, The Lone Ranger, [...]

Perhaps you've heard: There's an appealing new movie in theaters now, based on a best-selling novel in which a precocious white girl, working against the objections of her parents and [...]

The major 1991 motion picture releases are ranked according to the rating given to them by movie critics.

CRITICS ARE WISE not to be overly sensitive, but with newspapers rapidly phasing out many veteran thumb-waggers, accusations of being out of touch--or worse, obsolete--assume greater significance. In recent months, [...]

With thursday's Golden Globe announcements, awards season is in high gear. But, amid all this excitement, let's not forget some hard-working people who don't receive awards but who contribute so [...]

When it comes to a successful Oscar campaign, film reviews play a very, um ... critical role. Any veteran campaigner or awards marketer will say that positive ink supplied by [...]

THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR when many of us survey the maze of critics' 'top 10' lists and respond, in the mode of John McEnroe, 'You can't be serious.' [...]

Ever since film criticism became a respectable pursuit in the 1920s, critics have both incurred and encouraged a reputation for being not only arbiters of taste and opinion, but also [...]

Good Friday being cold and wet, I went to the movies. I bought Time Out, which advised that a 'superb modem thriller' had arrived. This was One False Move, directed [...]