Stephen Holden is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet. Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually became an A&R executive for RCA Records before turning to writing pop music reviews and related articles for Rolling Stone, Blender, The Village Voice, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. He first achieved prominence with his 1970s Rolling Stone work, where he tended to cover singer-songwriter and traditional pop artists. He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1981, and subsequently became one of the newspaper’s leading theatre and film critics. Below are his top 10 films for 2003.
1. Angels In America [HBO]
2. Mystic River
3. The Fog Of War
4. Capturing The Friedmans
5. Lost In Translation
6. House Of Sand And Fog
7. The Barbarian Invasions
8. American Splendor
9. Thirteen
10. City Of God
The Best DVDs You’ve Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten: A Guide for the Curious Film Lover
Megan Lehmann is a writer who formerly worked for the Hollywood Reporter and the New York Post and now writes for The Australian newspaper. Below are her top 10 film picks for 2003.
Michael Rechtshaffen is a film critic for the Los Angeles Times as well as a longtime contributor to The Hollywood Reporter. He is also a member of the L.A. Film Critics Association. Great to see that Rechtshaffen named the touching but unsentimental story of Irish immigrants trying to survive in New York City, In America as his top film of 2003.
Michael Wilmington was a movie critic for the LA Times from 1984 to 1993, and, in 1993, he was elected Vice President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In 1993, Wilmington was named the lead movie critic at the Chicago Tribune. While at the Tribune, Wilmington won or shared two Peter Lisagor awards for arts criticism. He was also the the on-air movie critic for cable channel CLTV, where he was nominated for two other Lisagors. Wilmington left the Tribune in 2007. In 2008, he became movie and DVD critic for Movie City News.
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Richard Nelson Corliss was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time. As a publisher, he mainly focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects. He died in April 2015.
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