Jonathan Rosenbaum
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The Chicago Reader's film critic for two decades and American criticism's great internationalist — the writer who kept insisting the canon was larger than the distribution system. Movie Wars and Essential Cinema argue that what we get to see is a policy decision, not a verdict; his site maintains an alternative canon that has rerouted more than a few viewing lives.