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b6 Pauline Kael Reviews: The Ones She Got Wrong In her review of the new Pauline Kael biography, Slate’s Dana Stevens says that “if you write about movies in America today (and in the age of the Internet, who doesn’t?), you define yourself at least in part in relation to Kael.” David Haglund is a senior editor at Slate. He runs Brow Beat, Slate's culture blog. Follow him on Twitter. Follow It’d be hard to disagree. Stephanie Zacharek, the long-time Salon reviewer who’s now at Movieline, knew Kael well (see, for instance, this lovely tribute she wrote after Kael’s death in 2001). She distrusts Hitchcock’s mechanics—the whirring of the gears at work always bothered her. That said, I don’t think I really struggled much with any review by Pauline that I disagreed with. J. Pauline calling her friend Phil Kaufman’s 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake a “masterpiece” without reference to the classic Don Siegel original, Pauline knocking Jarmusch’s terrific indie Stranger Than Paradise as some sort of “mousy” faux-East European comedy.

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