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# Joe Morgenstern

(1932)   Film Critic

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Joe Morgenstern is a film critic.

## Quick Facts About Joe Morgenstern

Born October 3, 1932

Profession Film Critic

## About Joe Morgenstern

American film critic... \| Joe Morgenstern is an American writer and retired film critic. He wrote for Newsweek from 1965 to 1983, and then for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2022. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2005. Morgenstern has also written for television.

##  Quotes by Joe Morgenstern

> [Children are gleeful barbarians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-morgenstern/children-are-gleeful-barbarians/)

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[Barbarians](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barbarians/)

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> [Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-morgenstern/christopher-nolan-s-168-minute-odyssey-through-the-space-time/)

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[Continuum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/continuum/)

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> [I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-morgenstern/i-ve-long-been-a-fan-of-imax-nature-documentaries-but-humpback-whales/)

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[Documentaries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/documentaries/)

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> [In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-morgenstern/in-an-industry-afflicted-by-sequelitis-it-has-taken-john-boorman/)

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[Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/)

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