Judith Crist (1922–2012) was an American film critic and academic. She appeared regularly on the Today show from 1964 to 1973 and was among the first full-time female critics for a major American newspaper, in her case, the New York Herald Tribune. She was the founding film critic at New York magazine and became known to most Americans as a critic at the weekly magazine TV Guide and at the morning TV show Today. She appeared in one film, Woody Allen’s dramatic-comedy film Stardust Memories, and was the author of various books, including The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl; Judith Crist’s TV Guide to the Movies; and Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking.
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All you’ll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
—Judith Crist
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