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title: 'Jonathan Rosenbaum'
type: 'critic-profile'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/critics/jonathan-rosenbaum'
updated: '2026-07-31'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Jonathan Rosenbaum

A critic followed by the CinePixo community. This is a profile, not a byline:
Jonathan Rosenbaum does not write for CinePixo, and no opinion on this site
should be attributed to this critic.

## About

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.

## Elsewhere

- [jonathanrosenbaum.net](https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/)

## Photograph

Photo: Kevin B. Lee and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · CC BY 3.0 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Rosenbaum,_2013.jpg

Source: https://cinepixo.com/critics/jonathan-rosenbaum
Profile written for CinePixo.