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R.I.P. Andrew Sarris: Revisit the Influential Film Critic's Breakthrough Review

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Decades after championing auteur theory and tangling with Pauline Kael, New York-based film critic Andrew Sarris has died at the age of 83, survived by his wife, the film critic Molly Haskell. In honor of one of the most influential careers in American film criticism, revisit one of Sarris's first notable reviews -- his celebration of Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1960 film Psycho, which the then-32-year-old insisted "should be seen at least three times by any discerning film-goer."
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