[Rummyfan]

If you want really good movie critics try James Agee, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Manny Farber, Penelope Gilliat and, for good measure, throw in the New Wave boys.

I really think Stephen Hunter was the best, when he was still doing movie reviews.

And am I the only one who thought he was gay for years and years?

No you're not the only one - I always thought so too and until this reference by Mark Steyn of Ebert's relationship with Oprah, had no idea he was straight.

[Borges]

Hunter was witty but didn’t really have any interest in the medium.

MM you seem to be biased by the very fact that he had a TV show at all. He HAD to review all those crappy films. He wrote for a daily newspaper not a magazine where he could devote one column a week to one movie. His best writing is of a very high level.