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Julia Sweeney chose to take the story of her brother's illness and hers to the stage and then the screen; Pauline Kael made no such decision, which is why Rushmore director Wes Anderson's New York Times account of visiting the retired New Yorker critic seemed an unseemly invasion of privacy.
Schickel is alternately sycophantic (toward Eastwood) and pugilistic (toward any critic who has ever had unkind words for the actor--particularly Pauline Kael, who did seem to have a mission to make the tall man's Magnum shrivel).
As to whether Pauline Kael, you and I, or anyone, should support a film simply because it might do humanity some good, my argument is: All good films do humanity some good, and no bad films do.
A movie critic blames the decline of movie criticism on Pauline Kael's disciples (among those implicated, Slate's David Edelstein).
The real reason Pauline Kael was revolutionary was that she wrote for actual moviegoers like herself, and evoked their needs and desires.