Eleanor Ringel Cater

Eleanor Ringel Cater was the lead movie critic for the Atlanta Journal Constitution for 28 years. She currently writes for The Daily Report, Like the Dew: A Journal of Southern Culture and Politics, and Blog for Democracy. She can also be heard every week on WMLB, Atlanta's Voice of the Arts, AM1190.

An Atlanta native, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. She has been a regular contributor to CNN, MSNBC, Entertainment Weekly, CNN Headline News and WXIA, the local NBC affiliate, and a columnist for TV Guide. She is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and her work has been included in their anthologies of film criticism, The X List and The A List.

She has served on panels or juries at the Montreal Global Film Festiva, the Miami International Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival (jury chair) the Sarasota French Film Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Florida Film Festival, the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester New York and Robert Osborne's Classic Film Festival in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of Stargazing: Movies and Astrology.

A multiple Pulitzer Prize nominee, her reviews have won her awards from numerous organizations, including Sigma Delta Chi, Best of Cox, Women in Film and IMAGE Film & Video.