# 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, The Nation)
* Hollis Alpert (Saturday Review)
* David Ansen (Newsweek)
* Michael Atkinson
* James Berardinelli
* 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 Five 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 (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

* Rudolf Arnheim
* Béla Balázs
* André Bazin (Cahiers du Cinéma)
* David Bordwell
* Noël Burch
* Ernest Callenbach
* Ray Carney
* Park Chan-wook
* 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
* Ritwik Ghatak
* Denis Gifford
* Jean-Luc Godard (Cahiers du Cinéma)
* Shigehiko Hasumi
* Siegfried Kracauer
* Emanuel Levy
* Jay Leyda
* Phillip Lopate
* Kaden Loyet
* Adrian Martin
* Christian Metz
* James Monaco
* Laura Mulvey
* Hugo Münsterberg
* Antonio Napolitano
* James Naremore
* Nagisa Oshima
* Satyajit Ray
* Tony Rayns
* Éric Rohmer (Cahiers du Cinéma)
* Raúl Ruiz (director)
* Jacques Rivette (Cahiers du Cinéma)
* Tadao Sato
* Kaja Silverman
* Susan Sontag
* David Sterritt
* David Stratton
* Kristin Thompson
* Alexis Tioseco
* Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
* Robin Wood
* Slavoj Žižek