Pauline Kael (1919–2001)

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1. Pauline Kael

   Author of 5001 Nights at the Movies: Expanded For The '90s With 800 New Reviews, For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies, Deeper into Movies

2. David Thomson

   Author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, A Biographical Dictionary of Film

3. James Agee

   Author of Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (Modern Library the Movies), Agee On Film Volume 1, Agee on Film, Vol. 2: Five Film Scripts

4. Edmund Wilson

   Author of Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Memoirs of Hecate County, Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties

5. Norman Mailer

   Author of An American Dream, The Deer Park, On a Fire on the Moon

6. Danny Peary

   Author of Cult Movies: The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful, Guide for the Film Fanatic, Alternate Oscars

7. Francis Davis

   Author of Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael
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8. François Truffaut

   Author of Hitchcock, The Films in My Life

9. Woody Allen

   Author of Without Feathers, Side Effects, Four Films: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories

10. Roger Ebert

    Author of The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's Book of Film, Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion
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11. Gore Vidal

    Author of Julian, Palimpsest: A Memoir, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

12. Philip Milton Roth

    Author of Philip Roth: Novels and Other Narratives 1986-1991 / The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / Patrimony (Library of America #185), Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995: Operation Shylock / Sabbath's Theater (Library of America), The American Trilogy: American Pastoral / I Married a Communist / The Human Stain

13. Greil Marcus

    Author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads

14. Donald Spoto

    Author of The Dark Side of Genius, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock

15. Terrence Rafferty

    Author of The Thing Happens: Ten Years of Writing About the Movies

16. John Cheever

    Author of The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America, No. 188), John Cheever: Complete Novels (Library of America)

17. Manny Farber

    Author of Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber

18. Kenneth Anger

    Author of Hollywood Babylon, Hollywood Babylon II

19. Andrew Sarris

    Author of The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968

20. Andre Bazin

    Author of What is Cinema?, Volume 1, What is Cinema?, Volume 2