List of film critics
Film critics analyze and evaluate film.
They can be divided into journalistic critics who write for newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic critics who are informed by film theory and publish in journals.
Notable journalistic critics
- Taran Adarsh (indiaFM)
- James Agee (Time (magazine), The Nation)
- Hollis Alpert (Saturday Review)
- David Ansen (Newsweek)
- Michael Atkinson
- James Berardinelli
- Peter Biskind
- Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian)
- Tom Brook (BBC)
- Ty Burr (The Boston Globe)
- Ernest Callenbach
- Vincent Canby (The New York Times)
- Robbie Collin (The Daily Telegraph)
- Pat Collins (WWOR-TV)
- Richard Corliss (Time Magazine)
- Bosley Crowther
- Mike D'Angelo
- Manohla Dargis
- David Denby
- Alonso Duralde (The Wrap)
- Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper)
- David Edelstein (New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning)
- Manny Farber
- Otis Ferguson
- John "The Drama" Penoveid (Time Magazine)
- Arturo Rodríguez Fernández
- John H. Foote
- Gary Franklin (KABC-TV)
- Philip French (The Observer)
- Randor Guy
- Leslie Halliwell
- Jake Hamilton
- Molly Haskell
- J. Hoberman (The Village Voice)
- Madhan
- Pauline Kael (The New Yorker)
- Sudhish Kamath (The Hindu)
- Stanley Kauffmann (The New Republic)
- Glenn Kenny (Premiere)
- Mark Kermode (Sight & Sound, BBC Radio Five Live)
- Anthony Lane (The New Yorker)
- Christy Lemire (Associated Press)
- Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog)
- Jeffrey Lyons (WNBC)
- Derek Malcolm (The Guardian)
- Leonard Maltin (Entertainment Tonight, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide)
- Morton Marcus (Cinema Scene)
- Rajeev Masand (CNN-IBN, India)
- Janet Maslin (The New York Times)
- Harold McCarthy
- Todd McCarthy (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter)
- Michael Medved
- Nell Minow (Beliefnet)
- Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The Detroit Free Press)
- Khalid Mohammed (Hindustan Times)
- Joe Morgenstern (The Wall Street Journal)
- Wesley Morris (The Boston Globe)
- Barry Norman
- Robert Osborne
- Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune)
- Margaret Pomeranz (At the Movies)
- Dilys Powell (The Sunday Times)
- Vasiraju Prakasam (Vaartha)
- Nathan Rabin (The A.V. Club)
- Rex Reed (New York Observer)
- Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper)
- Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)
- Jonathan Ross
- Andrew Sarris
- Richard Schickel
- Dan Schneider (Cosmoetica)
- A. O. Scott (New York Times)
- Gene Shalit (NBC's Today Show)
- Mayank Shekhar (Dainik Bhaskar)
- Tom Shone
- Joel Siegel (Good Morning America)
- John Simon
- Gene Siskel (Chicago Tribune, Siskel & Ebert)
- David Sterritt
- Dana Stevens (Slate)
- David Stratton (At the Movies)
- Elliott Stein (Village Voice)
- Amy Taubin
- David Thomson
- Desson Thomson (The Washington Post)
- Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)
- François Truffaut (Cahiers du cinéma)
- Kenneth Turan (Los Angeles Times)
- Parker Tyler (Film Culture)
- Jan Wahl (KRON-TV)
- Alexander Walker (London Evening Standard and others)
- David Walsh (World Socialist Web Site)
- Michael Walsh ("The Province")
- Armond White (New York Press)
Notable academic critics
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Béla Balázs
- André Bazin (Cahiers du Cinéma)
- Peter Bogdanovich
- David Bordwell
- Noël Burch
- Ernest Callenbach
- Ray Carney
- Carol J. Clover
- Hamid Dabashi
- Serge Daney (Cahiers du Cinéma, Libération, Trafic)
- Maya Deren
- Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Mary Ann Doane
- Vijayakrishnan
- Raymond Durgnat
- Sergei Eisenstein
- William K. Everson
- Manny Farber
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Denis Gifford
- Jean-Luc Godard (Cahiers du Cinéma)
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Shigehiko Hasumi
- Phillip Lopate
- Adrian Martin
- Christian Metz
- James Monaco
- Laura Mulvey
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Antonio Napolitano
- Nagisa Oshima
- Margaret Pomeranz
- Satyajit Ray
- Tony Rayns
- Éric Rohmer (Cahiers du Cinéma)
- Raúl Ruiz (director)
- Jacques Rivette (Cahiers du Cinéma)
- Andrew Sarris
- Tadao Sato
- Kaja Silverman
- David Sterritt
- David Stratton
- Kristin Thompson
- Alexis Tioseco
- François Truffaut (Cahiers du Cinéma)
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- Robin Wood
- Slavoj Žižek
Scientific articles
- Hennig-Thurau, Thorsten, André Marchand, and Barbara Hiller. (2012) The relationship between reviewer judgments and motion picture success: re-analysis and extension Journal of Cultural Economics, 36 (3), 249-283.