Jonathan Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris and Dave Kehr have taught me the most. I admire Hoberman, Ebert, French, Smith and Jones. I never waste my time with Medved, Matlin, Shalit and Armond White. As far as Pauline, she'll have to speak for herself:

"My pieces belong to the era before people could rent videos. I wrote at first sight and, when referring to earlier work, from memory. This had an advantage: urgency, excitement. But it also led to my worst flaw as a writer: reckless excess, in both praise and damnation. Writing very fast and trying to distill my experience of a movie, I often got carried away by words."