• 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. By Kent Jones.
  • Kent Jones, a respected film critic and programmer in New York, isn’t well served by the design of Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism, his first collection of...
  • Kent JONES is film critic and documentary maker. He worked for a long time at the New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center as programme director and...
  • Kent Jones on His Narrative Debut Diane, Criticism, and Curation.
  • Film critic and current director of the New York Film Festival, Kent Jones’ first feature, Diane, offers a psychological portrait of a woman whose attempts to reach...
  • 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.
  • Jones was inspired to be a film critic by the writing of Manny Farber (1917-2008) and Andrew Sarris (1928-2012) who Jones both knew personally.
  • And yet, it’s a somewhat understandable assumption to make with Diane, the narrative feature debut of prolific film critic and programmer Kent Jones.
  • KENT JONES: I have nothing against the word “transcendental” per se, but I do have a problem with the employment of it as a tag.