In 1975 (that is 50 years ago as of this writing), Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. To be clear, the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism itself was ...

First, the panellists briefly acknowledged the eclectic pathways that shaped their critical perspectives – a pattern common in the profession. Kerr described herself as “a lifelong film nerd” who ...

I spent time with Stanley Kauffmann only once, in December 1971, at a Modern Language Association seminar in Chicago. He, the distinguished film critic of The New Republic since 1958, and I, a pup who ...