List of film critics

Last updated October 21, 2025

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 ^[1] ( indiaFM )
James Agee ^[2] ( Time , The Nation )
Hollis Alpert ^[3] ( Saturday Review )
David Ansen ( Newsweek )
Michael Atkinson
James Berardinelli ^[4]
Peter Biskind
Peter Bogdanovich
Hye Bossin
Peter Bradshaw ( The Guardian )
Joe Bob Briggs
Richard Brody ( The New Yorker )
Tom Brook ( BBC )
Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe )
Ernest Callenbach
Vincent Canby ( The New York Times )
Charles Champlin ( The Los Angeles Times )
Justin Chang ( The Los Angeles Times , Fresh Air , Variety )
Anupama Chopra ( Anupama Chopra )
Michel Ciment ( Positif )
Jay Cocks ( Time )
Pat Collins ( WWOR-TV )
Richard Corliss ( Time )
Kevin Courrier (CBC Radio, Toronto Star , The Globe and Mail )
Judith Crist ( New York Herald Tribune , New York , TV Guide , Today )
Richard Crouse
Bosley Crowther ( The New York Times )
Mike D'Angelo ( Esquire )
Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times )
David Denby ( The New Yorker )
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 )
Glenn Erickson ( Online Film Critics Society )
Manny Farber ( The New Republic , Artforum )
Otis Ferguson ( The New Republic )
Arturo Rodríguez Fernández
John H. Foote
Gary Franklin ( KABC-TV )
Philip French ( The Observer )
Penelope Gilliatt ( The Observer , The New Yorker )
Owen Gleiberman ( Entertainment Weekly )
Randor Guy
Leslie Halliwell
Jake Hamilton ( Houston Chronicle )
Molly Haskell ( New York Magazine )
J. Hoberman ( The Village Voice )
Stephen Holden ( The New York Times )
Ann Hornaday ( The Washington Post )
Stephen Hunter ( The Baltimore Sun , The Washington Post )
Pauline Kael ( The New Yorker )
Sudhish Kamath ( The Hindu )
Stanley Kauffmann ( The New Republic )
Dave Kehr ( The Chicago Reader , The Chicago Tribune , The New York Daily News , The New York Times )
Lisa Kennedy ( The Denver Post )
Glenn Kenny ( Premiere )
Mark Kermode ( The Observer , BBC Radio 5 Live)
Anthony Lane ( The New Yorker )
Mick LaSalle ( San Francisco Chronicle )
C.A. Lejeune (The Observer)
Christy Lemire (Associated Press)
Emanuel Levy (( Variety )
Lou Lumenick ( New York Post )
Jeffrey Lyons ( WNBC )
Derek Malcolm ( The Guardian )
Leonard Maltin ( Entertainment Tonight , Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide )
Morton Marcus (Cinema Scene)
Rajeev Masand ^[5] ( CNN-IBN, India)
Janet Maslin ( The New York Times )
Harold McCarthy
Todd McCarthy ( Variety , The Hollywood Reporter )
Michael Medved ( New York Post , Sneak Previews )
Nell Minow ( rogerebert.com and moviedom.com)
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 )
Vittorio Mussolini
Kim Newman ( Empire )
Barry Norman ( BBC )
Frank Nugent ( The New York Times )
Mario Nuzzolese (Corriere della Sera)
Robert Osborne
Geoff Pevere (CBC Radio, Toronto Star , The Globe and Mail )
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 )
B. Ruby Rich ( Film Quarterly )
Frank Rich ( Time , New York )
Carrie Rickey ( Philadelphia Inquirer )
Shirrel Rhoades
Richard Roeper ( Chicago Sun-Times , At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper )
Jonathan Rosenbaum ( Chicago Reader )
Jonathan Ross ( BBC )
Dan Sallitt ( The Los Angeles Reader , The Chicago Reader , The Village Voice , MUBI)
Andrew Sarris ( The Village Voice )
Richard Schickel ( Time )
Paul Schrader ( Film Comment )
A. O. Scott ( New York Times )
Lisa Schwarzbaum ( Entertainment Weekly )
Matt Zoller Seitz ( The House Next Door , RogerEbert.com )
Gene Shalit (NBC's Today Show)
Mayank Shekhar ( Dainik Bhaskar )
Tom Shone ( The Sunday Times )
Joel Siegel ( Good Morning America )
John Simon ( New York , Esquire )
Gene Siskel ( Chicago Tribune , Siskel & Ebert )
David Sterritt ( The Christian Science Monitor )
Dana Stevens ( Slate )
David Stratton ( At the Movies )
Elliott Stein ( Village Voice )
Amy Taubin ( Artforum )
Anne Thompson ( Variety , The Hollywood Reporter )
David Thomson
Desson Thomson ( The Washington Post )
Peter Travers ( Rolling Stone )
François Truffaut ( Cahiers du cinéma )
Kenneth Turan ( The Los Angeles Times , Morning Edition )
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 )
Stephanie Zacharek ( Time , Salon (website) )
Ziad Abdullah (The New Arab, Al Akhbar (Lebanon), Al-Hayat and Emarat Al Youm)

Notable academic critics

References

↑ "Taran Adarsh Movie Reviews - The Review Monk". thereviewmonk.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
↑ "James Agee". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
↑ "Hollis Alpert". IMDb. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
↑ "James BerardinelliMovie Reviews & Previews - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
↑ "Rajeev Masand: Exclusive News Stories by Rajeev Masand on Current Affairs, Events at News18". News18.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

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[1] "Taran Adarsh Movie Reviews - The Review Monk". thereviewmonk.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

[2] "James Agee". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

[3] "Hollis Alpert". IMDb. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

[4] "James BerardinelliMovie Reviews & Previews - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

[5] "Rajeev Masand: Exclusive News Stories by Rajeev Masand on Current Affairs, Events at News18". News18.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

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List of film critics

Contents

Notable journalistic critics

Notable academic critics

References