The RhapsodesPauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of Americas most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler scrutinized what