“If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects, what's the point?”

—  Pauline Kael

Interview with Hal Espen, The New Yorker (1994-03-21); reprinted in Espen's Conversations with Pauline Kael (University of Mississippi Press, 1996, ISBN 0-878-05899-0), p. 162.
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American film critic 1919–2001

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