David Denby is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of Do the Movies Have a Future?
For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of classic works of movie criticism, including:
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
by Pauline Kael (1968)
Most people know Pauline Kael's work from her 22-year stint at the New Yorker. But this early collection, consisting of magazine pieces from





