CRITIC

Siskel or Ebert

• Backseat driver, e.g.

• Book or movie reviewer

• Certain opening night attendee

• Christopher Hitchens, e.g.

• Detractor

• Elvis Mitchell, e.g.

• Everybody's a ___!

• Everyone's a ___

• Faultfinder

• Gael Greene or Rex Reed

• Gene Shalit, for one

• Judge

• Knocker

• Leonard Maltin, e.g.

• Michiko Kakutani, say

• Movie reviewer

• Not a big fan

• One making picks and pans

• One who uses pans and not pots?

• Opening night attendee

• Opening night invitee

• Opening-night regular

• Pan producer

• Panner sometimes

• Penner of pans

• Picayune nitpicker perhaps

• Rapper?

• Rave writer

• Restaurant rater

• Reviewer

• Rex Reed, e.g.

• Roger Ebert, e.g.

• Role played by everyone, it's said

• Star giver

• Tabloid rater

• A person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

• Anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something

• Someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments