Five directors who hated Pauline Kael
These iconic filmmakers all had significant beef with Kael.
Pauline Kael
The evolution of the critic: Has internet culture killed art and critical thinking?
The demise of critical thinking.
The only movie screenings Pauline Kael walked out of: “Movies I found hopeless”
A voice of a generation.
How Robert Redford made a career-long enemy of Pauline Kael: “I thought it was a gag”
Kael tore into Redford at every opportunity she got.
The review so bad it made Clint Eastwood hire a psychiatrist: “It was some sort of vengeance”
The findings were interesting, to say the least.
Pauline Kael’s criticism of Stanley Kubrick movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Calling it “monumentally unimaginative”.