page_title: Jonathan Rosenbaum
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caption_attribution_description: English: American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum in early 2013.
context_page_description: Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic and author. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for The Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008, when he retired. He has published and edited numerous books about cinema and has contributed to some of the world's most notable film publications, including Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment.
  Regarding Rosenbaum, French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard said, "I think there is a very good film critic in the United States today, a successor of James Agee, and that is Jonathan Rosenbaum. He's one of the best; we don't have writers like him in France today. He's like André Bazin."
context_section_description: Jonathan Rosenbaum (born  February 27, 1943) is an American film critic and author. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for The Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008, when he retired. He has published and edited numerous books about cinema and has contributed to some of the world's most notable film publications, including Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment.
  Regarding Rosenbaum, French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard said, "I think there is a very good film critic in the United States today, a successor of James Agee, and that is Jonathan Rosenbaum. He's one of the best; we don't have writers like him in France today. He's like André Bazin."
caption: Rosenbaum in 2013
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