• Kent Jones (born 1957) is an American film critic and filmmaker. Biography. Kent Jones grew up in Berkshire County, Massachusetts before attending McGill University...
  • The critic and WCP executive director offers a personal take on art cinema and a primer on the project’s scope and mission.
  • ‘Diane’ Director Kent Jones on How He Pulled Off the Perilous Transition from Film Critic to Filmmaker.
  • I had a blast—and happily sat through it four times. Kent Jones is a New York-based critic and film programmer.
  • Film critic, documentarian, and New York Film Festival director Kent Jones has a range of knowledge and influence that’s virtually unrivaled in the critical industry.
  • Kent Jones may be best known as a New York-based film critic and programmer, serving as the...
  • Kent Jones is not the first film critic to turn filmmaker. But as director of the New York Film Festival, a role he has held since late 2012, Jones’s increasingly...
  • We’ll start with a beautiful piece by Kent Jones on one of the most powerful films of the 21st Century, directed by “the film world’s J.D. Salinger”, Terrence Malick.
  • Kent Jones has worn many hats: an archivist (for Martin Scorsese’s Cappa Productions), programmer (for New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center) and critic.