Mary F. Pols
<p>Mary F. Pols is a longtime movie critic and freelance journalist based in northern California. She has written for the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>Self</em>, and <em>Gourmet</em>, and her film criticism appears regularly online at MSN and <em>Time</em>. A former Knight Fellow at Stanford, she is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley.</p>