• Akira Iwasaki was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police in wartime Japan?
• Norwegian film critic Arne Hestenes, a one-time jury member of the Cannes Film Festival, was an honorary citizen of Cannes?
• Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa did not miss a single appearance in his 36 years as the host of TV Asahi's Sunday Western Movie Theatre until a week before his death?

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Film criticism

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation cult film reviewer and war correspondent John Hinde (pictured) bequeathed AU$1 million to start a new Australian literary prize?
• while the 2003 Norwegian film Buddy was described as "simple" in the Norwegian press, a U.S. reviewer called it "overly plotted"?

Pauline Kael

• the John Cassavetes film Husbands, praised by Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael and other prominent critics?