List of film critics

Film critics analyze and evaluate film. They can be divided into journalistic critics that write for newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic critics that are informed by film theory and publish in journals.

Notable journalistic critics

*Taran Adarsh ("indiaFM")
*James Agee ("Time", "The Nation")
*Hollis Alpert ("Saturday Review")
*Michael Atkinson
*James Berardinelli
*Peter Biskind
*Peter Bradshaw ("The Guardian")
*Tom Brook ("BBC")
*Ty Burr ("The Boston Globe")
*Ernest Callenbach
*Vincent Canby ("The New York Times")
*Godfrey Cheshire
*Richard Corliss
*Bosley Crowther
*Mike D'Angelo
*Manohla Dargis
*Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff ("Santa Fe Reporter")
*David Denby
*Roger Ebert ("Chicago Sun-Times", "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper")
*David Edelstein ("New York Magazine", NPR's "Fresh Air", "CBS Sunday Morning")
*Manny Farber
*Otis Ferguson
*The Filthy Critic
*John H. Foote
*Scott Foundas
*Gary Franklin ("KABC-TV")
*Philip French ("The Observer")
*Sebastian Zavala (" [http://filmreviews.starwarsepica.com.pe/ Star Reviews] ")
*Jack Garner (Gannett newspapers)
*Owen Gleiberman ("Entertainment Weekly")
*Graham Greene
*Rick Groen ("Toronto Globe and Mail")
*Randor Guy
*Leslie Halliwell
*Molly Haskell
*Jarrett Mazza-Anthony
*Jeremy Heilman
*Sky Hirschkron
*J. Hoberman ("The Village Voice")
*Kamran Jawaid ("Dawn Newspaper")
*Madhan
*Pauline Kael ("The New Yorker")
*Stanley Kauffmann ("The New Republic")
*Glenn Kenny ("Premiere")
*Mark Kermode ("Sight & Sound", BBC Radio Five Live)
*Anthony Lane ("The New Yorker")
*Terry Lawson ("Detroit Free Press")
*Dennis Lim
*Matt Lotti
*Tim Lucas ("Video Watchdog")
*Jeffrey Lyons ("WNBC")
*John Maguire ("Sunday Business Post")
*Derek Malcolm ("The Guardian")
*Leonard Maltin ("Entertainment Tonight", "Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide")
*Janet Maslin ("The New York Times")
*Harold McCarthy
*Michael Medved
*Nell Minow ("Beliefnet")
*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")
*Barry Norman
*Robert Osborne
*Theo Panayides ("Cyprus Mail")
*Margaret Pomeranz ("At the Movies")
*Dilys Powell ("The Sunday Times")
*Dustin Putman ("The Movie Boy")
*Rex Reed ("New York Observer")
*Richard Roeper ("At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper")
*Jonathan Rosenbaum ("Chicago Reader")
*Jonathan Ross
*Andrew Sarris
*Dan Sallitt
*Richard Schickel
*A. O. Scott ("New York Times")
*Gene Shalit (NBC's "Today Show")
*Tom Shone
*Joel Siegel ("Good Morning America")
*John Simon
*Alison Bailes "WNBC", ("Reel Talk")
*Gene Siskel ("Chicago Tribune", "Siskel & Ebert")
*David Stratton ("At the Movies")
*Frank Swietek
*Amy Taubin
*David Thomson
*Desson Thomson ("The Washington Post")
*Scott Tobias ("The Onion")
*Peter Travers ("Rolling Stone")
*Kenneth Turan ("Los Angeles Times")
*Parker Tyler ("Film Culture")
*Alexander Walker (London "Evening Standard" and others)
*David Walsh (World Socialist Web Site)
*Armond White
*Stephanie Zacharek

Notable academic critics

* Rudolf Arnheim
* Béla Balázs
* André Bazin
* Jean-Louis Baudry
* Peter Bogdanovich
* David Bordwell
* Noël Burch
* Ernest Callenbach
* Ray Carney
* Carol J. Clover
* Hamid Dabashi
* Serge Daney
* Maya Deren
* Mary Ann Doane
* Raymond Durgnat
* Sergei Eisenstein
* William K. Everson
* Manny Farber
* Ritwik Ghatak
* Raymond J. Haberski
* Siegfried Kracauer
* Marcia Landy
* Phillip Lopate
* Joan Mellen
* Christian Metz
* James Monaco
* Laura Mulvey
* Hugo Münsterberg
* Antonio Napolitano
* Nagisa Oshima
* Margaret Pomeranz
* Satyajit Ray
* Tony Rayns
* Éric Rohmer
* William Rothman
* Jacques Rivette
* Andrew Sarris
* Tadao Sato
* Kaja Silverman
* David Stratton
* Kristin Thompson
* François Truffaut
* Robin Wood
* Slavoj Žižek
* Gavin Burke col-end