List of film critics
Film critics analyze and evaluate film.
They can be divided into journalistic critics who write for newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic critics who are informed by film theory and publish in journals.
Notable journalistic critics
- Taran Adarsh
- James Agee
- Hollis Alpert
- David Ansen
- Michael Atkinson
- James Berardinelli
- Peter Biskind
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Hye Bossin
- Peter Bradshaw
- Joe Bob Briggs
- Richard Brody
- Tom Brook
- Ty Burr
- Ernest Callenbach
- Vincent Canby
- Charles Champlin
- Justin Chang
- Anupama Chopra
- Michel Ciment
- Jay Cocks
- Pat Collins
- Richard Corliss
- Kevin Courrier
- Judith Crist
- Richard Crouse
- Bosley Crowther
- Mike D'Angelo
- Manohla Dargis
- David Denby
- Alonso Duralde
- Roger Ebert
- David Edelstein
- Glenn Erickson
- Manny Farber
- Otis Ferguson
- Arturo Rodríguez Fernández
- John H. Foote
- Gary Franklin
- Philip French
- Penelope Gilliatt
- Owen Gleiberman
- Randor Guy
- Leslie Halliwell
- Jake Hamilton
- Molly Haskell
- J. Hoberman
- Stephen Holden
- Ann Hornaday
- Stephen Hunter
- Pauline Kael
- Sudhish Kamath
- Stanley Kauffmann
- Dave Kehr
- Lisa Kennedy
- Glenn Kenny
- Mark Kermode
- Anthony Lane
- Mick LaSalle
- C.A. Lejeune
- Christy Lemire
- Emanuel Levy
- Lou Lumenick
- Jeffrey Lyons
- Derek Malcolm
- Leonard Maltin
- Morton Marcus
- Rajeev Masand
- Janet Maslin
- Harold McCarthy
- Todd McCarthy
- Michael Medved
- Nell Minow
- Elvis Mitchell
- Khalid Mohammed
- Joe Morgenstern
- Wesley Morris
- Vittorio Mussolini
- Kim Newman
- Barry Norman
- Frank Nugent
- Mario Nuzzolese
- Robert Osborne
- Geoff Pevere
- Michael Phillips
- Margaret Pomeranz
- Dilys Powell
- Vasiraju Prakasam
- Nathan Rabin
- Rex Reed
- B. Ruby Rich
- Frank Rich
- Carrie Rickey
- Shirrel Rhoades
- Richard Roeper
- Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Jonathan Ross
- Dan Sallitt
- Andrew Sarris
- Richard Schickel
- Paul Schrader
- A. O. Scott
- Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Gene Shalit
- Mayank Shekhar
- Tom Shone
- Joel Siegel
- John Simon
- Gene Siskel
- David Sterritt
- Dana Stevens
- David Stratton
- Elliott Stein
- Amy Taubin
- Anne Thompson
- David Thomson
- Desson Thomson
- Peter Travers
- François Truffaut
- Kenneth Turan
- Parker Tyler
- Jan Wahl
- Alexander Walker
- David Walsh
- Michael Walsh
- Armond White
- Stephanie Zacharek
- Ziad Abdullah
Notable academic critics
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Béla Balázs
- André Bazin
- David Bordwell
- Noël Burch
- Ernest Callenbach
- Ray Carney
- Park Chan-wook
- Carol J. Clover
- Hamid Dabashi
- Serge Daney
- Maya Deren
- Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Mary Ann Doane
- Vijayakrishnan
- Raymond Durgnat
- Sergei Eisenstein
- William K. Everson
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Denis Gifford
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Shigehiko Hasumi
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Emanuel Levy
- Jay Leyda
- Phillip Lopate
- Kaden Loyet
- Adrian Martin
- Christian Metz
- James Monaco
- Laura Mulvey
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Antonio Napolitano
- James Naremore
- Nagisa Oshima
- Satyajit Ray
- Tony Rayns
- Éric Rohmer
- Raúl Ruiz (director)
- Jacques Rivette
- Tadao Sato
- Kaja Silverman
- Susan Sontag
- David Sterritt
- David Stratton
- Kristin Thompson
- Alexis Tioseco
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- Robin Wood
- Slavoj Žižek