THE AGE OF MOVIES

Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply, Pauline Kael once observed, just because you must use everythi ng you are and everything you know. Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable t ools to shape the tastes of a generation, enthralling readers with her gift for capturing, with force and fluency, the essence of an actor's gesture or the full implication of a cinematic image. Kael called movies the most total and encompassing art form we have, and she m...[Read more]