Bosley Crowther

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Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American film critic.

Crowther was a prolific writer of film essays as a critic for the New York Times from the early 1940s until the late 1960s. Such was his perceived influence that a negative review of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde was said to have panicked the film's producers, who believed that the public would avoid the film as a result. By that time, however, his tastes were widely regarded as antiquated (for instance, he had lauded the widely dismissed financial disaster Cleopatra), even by his editors at the Times, and he retired in 1968.

He was well known for his disparagement of Japanese cinema in particular, finding Throne of Blood ludicrous, particularly its ending; and calling Gojira "an incredibly awful film".

External link

• http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/author/rev_auth_crowther/ New York Times links to numerous film reviews by Crowther.]

 

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