140 Quotes by Pauline Kael

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.