PETER TRAVERS
PETER TRAVERS has been the film critic and senior editor for film at Rolling Stone magazine since 1989. He appears weekly as a film commentator on CNN and he can be found online in streaming video each week by logging onto Rollingstone.com.
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David
Edelstein - New
York Magazine, NPR's
Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Mornings
David Edelstein (born 1959) is the chief film critic for New York Magazine,
as well as the film critic for NPR's Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning.
Edelstein became a journalist after studies at Harvard. He has previously been a film critic for Slate (1996-2005), the New York Post, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Arts & Leisure section, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, Variety, Esquire, and elsewhere. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
He is the author, with independent film producer Christine Vachon of Killer Films, of Shooting to Kill (Avon Books, 1998). He is also the author of two plays, Feed the Monkey (Loeb Experimental Theater, Harvard College, 1993) and Blaming Mom (Watermark Theater, New York City, 1994).
GODFREY CHESHIRE
GODFREY CHESHIRE
GODFREY CHESHIRE is a Manhattan-based film critic whose writings have appeared in the New York Times, Variety, the Village Voice, New York Press, Newsweek, Interview magazine, Film Comment and other publications. His areas of special interest include Iranian cinema, American independent films and the transition to digital cinema; in 2000, the Museum of Modern Art and the Sundance Film Festival both presented special discussions of his writings about the issues surrounding digitization. A former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and a member of the National Society of Film Critics, he currently writes for The Independent Weekly, is working on a book about Iranian cinema, and is producing two films. information, Interview
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine is film/TV critic for Star magazine. Previously, he was national film correspondent and national TV correspondent for Gannett News Service. He has been a member of the New York Film Critics Circle since 1989 and is serving his third term as chairman. His writing has appeared in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, Premiere, Cosmopolitan and Entertainment Weekly.
He conducted the Playboy Interview with both Howard Stern and Tim Robbins. He is the author of three books, including ?Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah? (1991) and ?Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness? (1998). His most recent book is ?Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film,? published by Miramax Books in January 2006.
His short film, ?Flo Fox?s Dicthology,? was shown at the Woodstock Film Festival and the International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, in 2002. He is at work on a feature-length documentary about film critic Rex Reed.
STEVEN
WHITTY
Stephen Whitty is the senior film critic and a Sunday columnist for the Star-Ledger and NEWHOUSE NEWSPAPERS. Previously he was the film critic for the San Jose Mercury News, where he also reviewed books. He has contributed fiction and features to Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan and other magazines, beginning with a letter to Famous Monsters of Filmland when he was 12.
Whitty was born in New York, and received his BFA from New York University. His commentaries and reviews have won awards from a variety of organizations, including multiple prizes from the New Jersey Press Association and the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors. A short he wrote in film school still occasionally shows up in wretched timeslots on cable.
Whitty lives in New Jersey with one wife, two children, three pets and far too many videos. He takes his popcorn unbuttered and always sits in the front row.
OWEN GLEIBERMAN
OWEN GLEIBERMAN has been Entertainment Weekly's film critic since the magazine's
launch in 1990. Before that, he was a film critic at The Boston Phoenix from
1981-89. His work has been published in Premiere and Film Comment and anthologized
in the film criticism anthology Love and Hisses. He also reviews movies for
National Public Radio and for NY 1, New York City's 24-hour cable news station.
He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
