Lisa Schwarzbaum (born July 5, 1952) is an American film critic . She joined Entertainment Weekly as a senior writer in 1991, working as a film critic for the magazine alongside Owen Gleiberman from 1995 to 2013.
12-575: Hornaday is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ann Hornaday , American film critic Jeffrey Hornaday , American choreographer and film director Mary J. Hornaday (1906–1982), American journalist Ron Hornaday Sr. (1931–2008), American racer Ron Hornaday Jr. (born 1958), NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Ronnie Hornaday , American racer William Hornaday , American minister William Temple Hornaday , American zoologist See also [ edit ] Hornaday River ,
24-510: A 304-page text published with Basic Books , draws on a series Hornaday began writing in 2009 for the Post , aimed at explaining the various specialized crafts in filmmaking – like sound, editing, cinematography – to a general audience. Hornaday approached it as a journalistic project, interviewing people working in a variety of roles in film to ask them to describe what they do as well as "what they wished audiences appreciated more about their work". In
36-473: A Super Millionaire as part of the first "Three Wise Men" panel to support the wrong answer option. She had multiple appearances on Charlie Rose to discuss recent movie releases. Schwarzbaum is featured in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism describing the importance and impact of two women critics, Molly Haskell and Janet Maslin . In early 2015, Schwarzbaum
48-540: A freelance writer, contributing to Premiere , Us and Ms. magazines; at the latter, she also worked as a researcher and assistant to Gloria Steinem , a role she held from 1983 to 1985. Hornaday began contributing to the "Arts & Leisure" section of The New York Times , eventually going on to become film critic at the Austin American-Statesman in 1995. In 1997 she moved to The Baltimore Sun , then to The Washington Post in 2002, following
60-475: A review for The New York Times , Lisa Schwarzbaum described the book as "a pleasantly calm, eminently sensible, down-the-middle primer for the movie lover — amateur, professional or Twitter -centric orator — who would like to acquire and sharpen basic viewing skills." Hornaday lives in Baltimore. Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum was born on July 5, 1952, to Leon Schwarzbaum, a combat engineer during
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84-646: Is a member of the National Society of Film Critics , is a past president of the New York Film Critics Circle , and has served a five-year term on the New York Film Festival's selection committee. Following Gene Siskel's 1999 death, Schwarzbaum served as a guest co-host for an episode of Season 14 of Roger Ebert & the Movies . She appeared on a February 2004 episode of Who Wants to Be
96-626: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ann Hornaday Ann Hornaday is an American film critic. She has been film critic at The Washington Post since 2002 and is the author of Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies (2017). In 2008, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism . Hornaday grew up in Des Moines, Iowa . She attended Smith College , majoring in government; she graduated in 1982. After graduating from college, Hornaday moved to New York to become
108-555: The Pacific War . The oldest child of a Jewish family raised in the Bronx, she has two brothers. Schwarzbaum has credited WWOR-TV 's Million Dollar Movie series for sparking her interest in films through its presentation of RKO Pictures ' catalog. After concentrating in music at Sarah Lawrence College , her mother suggested that she become an art critic to combine her interest in writing. Lisa Schwarzbaum's early work under Leo Lerman in
120-434: The arts and entertainment section of Mademoiselle further shaped her career as a film critic. Lisa Schwarzbaum's writing career began with reviewing classical music for The Real Paper and The Boston Globe . Aside from her work as a film critic for Entertainment Weekly from 1995 to 2013, she has also written for The New York Times , Time , Slate , The New Statesman and The Baltimore Sun . She
132-435: The retirement of the Post 's previous critic Rita Kempley. She has also written features for Working Woman and Self magazine. In 2008, Hornaday was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism , with the prize committee citing "her perceptive movie reviews and essays, reflecting solid research and an easy, engaging style." In 2017, Hornaday published Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies . The book,
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#1733084667080144-543: Was selected for Amtrak's inaugural writing residency program, in which she produced blog posts on her cross-country travel and wrote about her father for Tablet . In her final column for Entertainment Weekly in 2013, she wrote: I've spent 22 years at Entertainment Weekly , 19 of them as a critic—a glorious tenure that ends this week. [...] I once received an effing cool email from Josh Brolin telling me, and I quote, "You can f---ing write!" and promising to be in my movie. Not that I have any plans whatsoever to write
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