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Molly Clark Haskell (born September 29, 1939) is an American film critic and author. She contributed to The Village Voice—first as a theatre critic, then as a movie reviewer—and from there moved on to New York magazine and Vogue.
Molly Haskell is a renowned film critic and author of books on women's roles in the movies, such as From Reverence to Rape and Frankly My Dear. Learn more about her life, work and publications on her official website.
As a feminist and onetime Southern adolescent, Molly Haskell understands how the story takes on different shades of meaning according to the age and eye of the beholder. She is, says Phillip Lopate, "a magician to coax such exciting, fresh, brilliant analysis from such a problematic classic."
Molly Haskell author and critic, grew up in Richmond, Va., went to Sweet Briar College, the University of London and the Sorbonne before settling in New York.
Jul 9, 2021 · Molly Haskell is a film critic and author who has written books on women in the movies, Frankly, My Dear, and Steven Spielberg. She has also contributed essays on various films, from classics to contemporary works, to Current, an online magazine by The Criterion Collection.
Jan 2, 2017 · A 2017 interview with the influential film critic and author of From Reverence to Rape and Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films. She discusses the treatment of women in movies, the role of the Production Code, and the difference between sex and violence in cinema.
Jan 3, 2018 · Haskell established herself early on as a feminist film critic, an alignment and way of thinking that permeated much of her work, particularly her 1974 book “From Reverence to Rape: The ...
