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)
• 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)
• 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