Owen Gleiberman

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Owen Gleiberman (born 24 February 1959) is a film critic for Entertainment Weekly, a position he has held since the magazine's launch in 1990. From 1981-89, he worked at the Boston Phoenix. He was recommended for the position by Pauline Kael, the highly influential critic for The New Yorker^[^{citation needed]}.

Besides Entertainment Weekly, his work has been published in Film Comment, and anthologized in the film criticism anthology Love and Hisses. He also reviews movies for National Public Radio and for NY1, New York City's 24-hour cable news station. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, he has served as the Chair of that group. He was graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English.

Gleiberman has acknowledged that he has difficulty dealing with the grading system at EW and that it has "never been [his] favorite thing.^{[citation needed]}"