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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer
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4/27/2025
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote | dG1fbVpuWllHUWJDbW8
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Who else is good in the...
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Pauline Kael.
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Yeah.
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She's never said a good thing about me yet.
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But you like her?
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Dirty old broad.
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Since 1968, Pauline Kael has written film criticism for The New Yorker.
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I understood her voice, and I related to her voice, even when I disagreed with her.
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We grew up reading Pauline Kael.
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She seemed to notice everything.
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There is a sense that people really don't know what they believe in anymore.
00:28
She turned the movie review into this expressive vehicle.
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It was as expressive as the short story or the sonnet.
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She said, I know that some of my reviews have sent people to bed for two weeks.
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Pretty sharp-tottened.
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What was referred to as that ghastly woman.
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There's very few critics who have the guts to go out there and write an honest review of a bad movie.
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She refused to be intimidated.
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Any woman in that position is going to collect a lot of the animosity and really craziness that's out there.
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There's tremendous hatred of women.
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The real hate mail is for men, and it is vicious.
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And there are a great many critics who are just trying to get through the day, who know their second rate,
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and who are scared of their editors, and scared of their readers, and scared of the movie companies.
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If you're good enough, then you bring something to a magazine or a newspaper.
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You bring it readers, and so you can hold your round judgment.
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If you're not good enough, then you're at the mercy of everybody, and you have to give in.
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And so the point would be really to develop more courage.
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But she's probably the most qualified critic in the world, because she cares about film and those that are involved in it.
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Thanks, Jennifer.
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