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5001 NIGHTS AT THE MOVIES

Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael is the presumptive subject of Quentin Tarantino's final film, The Movie Critic, directing in the fall of 2023.

The intelligent person's guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviews

Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next. Pauline Kael's reviews aren't just provocative---they're addictive.

These brief, informative reviews, written for the "Goings On About Town" section of The New Yorker, provide an immense range of listings---a masterly critical history of American and foreign film. This is probably the only movie guide you'll want to read for the sheer pleasure of it.

Pauline Kael reached national attention in the 1960s, first in a brief stint as critic for The New Republic, finally as a longtime fixture at The New Yorker (1968-1991). She was considered by many to be the most influential American film critic of the last 50 years. She died in September of 2001.
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Published 1984-05-10 by Henry Holt

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“She is, indeed, the Edmund Wilson of film reviewers.” ?Larry McMurtry “She's the best film critic we've got.” ?Details “A great critic with a body of criticism that can be compared with Shaw's criticism of music and the theatre.” ?The Times Literary Supplement (London) “Kael changed the way we see. Poets aren't the only unacknowledged legislators of the world; great critics write the text as well.” ?San Francisco Examiner

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