Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959)
is an American
film critic
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who has been chief film critic for ''
Variety
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* ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
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'' magazine since May 2016, a title he shares with . Previously, Gleiberman wrote for ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' from 1990 until 2014. From 1981 to 1989, he wrote for ''
The Phoenix''.
Early life and education
Gleiberman was born in
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, to Jewish-American parents.
[Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies]
Owen Gleiberman. He was raised in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor ...
, and is a graduate of the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
.
Career
Gleiberman's work has been published in ''
Premiere
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'' and ''
Film Comment
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'', and collected in the film criticism anthology ''Love and Hisses''.
Gleiberman reviews
movies
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for
NPR
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and
NY1
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.
He is a member of the
New York Film Critics Circle
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.
He is one of the critics featured in
Gerald Peary Gerald Peary (born October 30, 1944) is an American film critic, filmmaker, editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and a former curator of the Harvard Film Archive.
Early life and education
Peary graduated from Rider University in 1964, w ...
's 2009
documentary film ''
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism''.
Gleiberman's
autobiography
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It is a form of biography.
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, ''Movie Freak'', was published by
Hachette Books
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.
He and his wife Sharon live in
New York City
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with their three daughters.
References
External links
*
1959 births
Living people
American film critics
National Society of Film Critics Members
American male journalists
American people of Swiss-Jewish descent
Jewish American journalists
Jewish American writers
Journalists from New York City
University of Michigan alumni
Vanity Fair (magazine) people
Variety (magazine) people
20th-century American journalists
Swiss emigrants to the United States
Swiss Jews
Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan
21st-century American Jews
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