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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael - Film Critic - Author - 1960s

Five directors who hated Pauline Kael

These iconic filmmakers all had significant beef with Kael.

Michael Gordon
Jan 21, 2025
Pauline Kael - Film Critic - Author - 1960s

The industry-changing blockbuster Pauline Kael hated: “A good movie brought in terrible consequences”

It stuck with her.

Lily Hardman
Jan 16, 2025
The evolution of the critic- Has internet culture killed art and critical thinking?

The evolution of the critic: Has internet culture killed art and critical thinking?

The demise of critical thinking.

Emily Ruuskanen
Jan 14, 2025
Pauline Kael - Film Critic - Author - 1960s

The only movie screenings Pauline Kael walked out of: “Movies I found hopeless”

A voice of a generation.

Emily Ruuskanen
Jan 7, 2025
Robert Redford - Pauline Kael - Split

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.

Michael Gordon
Dec 26, 2024
Clint Eastwood - Actor - Director - 2018

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.

Scott Campbell
Nov 4, 2024
Pauline Kael - Film Critic - Author - 1960s

“I despise his movies”: the director Pauline Kael hated with a passion

It was clearly personal.

Scott Campbell
Jul 25, 2024
Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino - John Travolta - Samuel L Jackson

Pauline Kael reviews Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’

“No serious undercurrents”.

Calum Russell
Mar 16, 2023

Pauline Kael’s criticism of Stanley Kubrick movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Calling it “monumentally unimaginative”.

Calum Russell
May 29, 2022

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