cuz analyzing those whose profession it is to analyze is fun!

i really like marc savlov. hilarious. look up his pokemon 4ever review, or just search his low scorers.
i also tend to be most in sync with his perspective, but that's not a criteria for critical appreciation...
...as honorable mention goes to ebert, with whom i disagree a large part of the time, and yet respect.
christian science monitor is pretty hot too. idk if they have a single resident film critic, but they seem to be pretty objective.

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Peter Travers has always been favorite, but I really do enjoy Joe Morgenstern's (spelling?) reviews. Ebert is also an excellent critic. Another honorable mention to any of the Philadelphia Inquierer (spelling?) critics.

Mike D'Angelo, hands down.

He used to write for Tim Out New York, then did some stuff for Variety, and now I think he writes for verve.

Anyways, the guy knows his stuff, writes VERY intelligently without being pretentious, and injects a lot of humor into his stuff. He's great.

I also like Manohla Dargis a lot as well and have followed her criticism from the LA Weekly to the LA Times and now to the NY Times. I don't always agree with her (she panned Dogville and loved Elephant), but as is the case with Mr. D'Angelo, she writes intelligently and has a nice writing style.

I should also include J. Hoberman and Amy Taubin. Exceptional writers, those two.

Might be cliche but I still love Pauline Kael. J Hoberman is excellent. Rosenbaum, too. I occasionally read Duncan Shepherd, too, although he can get on my nerves.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine is my go-to guy when it comes to movie reviews. I read a lot of others, but he's my favorite movie critic.

I love Peter Travers too. He's being black sarcastic when he comes across something he don't like, still, I like him especially on this piece about Stop-Loss:

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/17357964/review/19580698/stoploss

"... I occasionally read Duncan Shepherd, too, although he can get on my nerves."[/QUOTE]

I am just curious regarding your reference to Duncan Shepherd...I have been curious also as to why he does not appear on either Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic; do you by chance know? My guess has been that he doesn't want his reviews/criticism reduced to a sentence or three...as much as he might get on one's nerves from time to time I think he is one of the best writers on film/movies out there / anywhere...and even when one is in disagreement he is usually provocative, often insightful and well more often than not a master of the written word...

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favorite critics

Stikanth, another writer of film criticism - not a movie reviewer -
that occurred to me is Robin Wood. He wrote one of the best books on
Hitchcock there is, and over the years has focused his considerable
insight on a wide range of movie subjects. Wood has a wonderful way
of connecting all the information in a work, writing about the
structural aspects of film in such a way that it actually provides a
fresh and terrifically clear way to look a movies. Sometimes the
prose betrays Wood's academic mindset, but when he gets pedantic the
effect comes with a certain sense of exhilaration that both
enlightens and entertains.

Rocky
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Duncan Shepherd have very well been criticized for his "trademark cynicism" and "scathing, elitist" reviews. But overall I believe he does a great job in summing up thing and getting right to the point !

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