Joe Morgenstern

Host, 'Film Reviews'

Joe Morgenstern is the film critic of The Wall Street Journal.  His first job in journalism was as a news clerk at the New York Times where he later became a foreign correspondent reporting from Switzerland and France.  He went on to become an entertainment reporter and then a theater and movie critic for the New York Herald Tribune.  In the 1960's and 1970's he was Newsweek Magazine's film critic and from 1983 to 1988 he was a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. His freelance writing has appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Playboy, GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review.  He has also written for television, including "The Boy In the Plastic Bubble" and several episodes of "Law & Order."  Mr. Morgenstern is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, as well as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.  In 2005, Mr. Morgenstern won The Pulizer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, for "his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit."