Lisa Schwarzbaum is an American

United States

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 film critic. She joined Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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 as film critic in the 1990s. She has been featured on CNN

CNN

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, co-host on Siskel & Ebert At the Movies as well as a cultural, theater and television reviewer.

Schwarzbaum is featured in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet...

 describing the importance and impact of two women critics, Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell

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 and Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

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, and also recalling the effect on her as a child watching the Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey

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 film, The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair

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Her career began in Boston, where she wrote for The Boston Globe

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. She has also written for The New York Daily News The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine

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, Vogue

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 and Redbook

Redbook

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She is a member of the National Society of Film Critics

National Society of Film Critics

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