Pauline Kael
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About
Feisty film critic for New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. She is widely considered to have reinvented the form of criticism, elevating it to an entire aesthetic of writing.
Before Fame
She attended UC Berkeley to study philosophy, literature, and art.
Trivia
She has been called the Elvis and the Beatles of film criticism. She regretted not being able to review Vanya on 42nd Street, because it was released after she retired.
Family Life
Her parents were named Judith and Isaac.
Associated With
She has been called a great critic by Woody Allen.
