Passionate in her devotion to the pleasures of cinema, Pauline Kael (1919-2001) transformed movie reviewing. Pauline kael was famous for seeing movies only once, and her reactions to them were definitive they left no wiggle room for doubt. Can anyone who followed her career as America's most electrifying movie critic cite a time when she changed her mind? Four weeks before her death, she was as stubborn about her opinions, and as skeptical of the critical conventional wisdom, as always.
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