The 25 Best Movie Critics of All Time  24. Kim Newman
Publications: City Limits, Sight and Sound, Empire Read Reviews
Here   Highbrow movie critics have a tendency to downplay horror
movies, and unfairly so. Kim Newman, on the other hand, has made
a career out of championing the weirdest, most overlooked, and
decidedly one-of-a-kind gore flicks, creature features, and
every other kind of scare flick.  Hailing from London, Newman
also moonlights as a horror fiction writer, but it's his regular
Empire column, "Kim Newman's Video Dungeon," that still provides
the 28-year veteran's most anticipated writings. Everything from
Lucio Fulci pictures to schlock like Codependent Lesbian Space
Alien Seeks the Same (yes, that's a real movie) gets the Dungeon
treatment.  Those interested in catching up with Newman's pro-
genre narratives should start with his massive, brilliantly
comprehensive book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the
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