Books
Novella-length essay ‘Raising Kane’ is ranked no. 40 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it started a fight that forced everyone to take a side.
April 8, 2024
Movies
Documentary “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” profiles the longtime firebrand film critic of the New Yorker.
Dec. 12, 2019
Critiquing Pauline Kael’s reviews culled from her New Yorker pieces is no easy task.
Oct. 23, 1994
‘Get out of here with your cowboys boots,” screamed the anonymous letter sent to Pauline Kael shortly after she became film critic for the New Yorker in 1967.
Oct. 9, 1994
I am sure that the Paulettes, the acolytes of the late film critic Pauline Kael, will yell and scream at the suggestion in Jay A.
Jan. 6, 2007
Entertainment & Arts
A Kaelette is not a computer microchip. Nor is it a backup singer in a rhythm-and-blues band.
Dec. 22, 1985
During her 24-year tenure at the New Yorker, Pauline Kael’s pungent essays established her as the most respected film critic in the United States.
Sept. 22, 1991
AFTERGLOW: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael, By Francis Davis, Da Capo: 134 pp., $18
Sept. 29, 2002
Critic Pauline Kael, who died Monday, provided lively, insightful commentary about an exasperating business. She influenced Hollywood as well as other journalists.
Sept. 5, 2001
Obituary: Her passionate, insightful New Yorker essays made her the high priestess of her field.
Sept. 4, 2001