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October 14, 2011 In this week’s issue, I write about Pauline Kael, who was a New Yorker film critic from 1968 to 1991, and whose reviewing helped establish several movies of the late sixties and...

Pauline Kael, perhaps the most passionate and formative of all American film critics, was able to transform 20th century cinema with just the power of her typewriter.

Pauline Kael, (born June 19, 1919, Petaluma, California, U.S.—died September 3, 2001, Great Barrington, Massachusetts), prominent American film critic of the second half of the 20th century. Kael graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1940.

Pauline Kael wrote for The New Yorker from 1967 until her retirement, in 1991. In 1968, shortly after the publication of her review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” she became the magazine’s film critic....

Pauline Kael. Photograph: Erin Combs/Toronto Star via Getty Movies The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael The New Yorker’s legendary reviewer would have been 100 this year. Here, fans of...

Pauline Kael. Photo: Erin Combs/Toronto Star via Getty Images This remembrance originally ran in New York’ s 50th anniversary issue as part of the feature, “My New York: Long Agos.” I resurrect...