Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin are arguably the most famous and widely read film critics from North America. Ebert’s colleagues Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper are also widely known. Does Britain have any film critics who are similarly famous and widely read, at least in their home country?
The doyenne of British film critics was Dilys Powell .
Other heavyweights are listed at this Wikipedia site.
Leslie Halliwell’s Film Guide was the British equivalent to Maltin’s guide. Halliwell died years ago, but it’s still published. There’s more compettion now from other guides and the IMDB, so the name is perhaps not so recognisable now.
I think Barry Norman is the only Ebert, the film critic who everybody’s heard of.
The late Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard was always good for a laugh.
Of the modern ones, Mark Kermode seems to have his head screwed on.
I’ll agree with seosamh - Mark Kermode is the one I’d rely on more than any other.
Let’s give the film mavens in Cafe Society a chance to get in on this.
Moved from GQ. samclem