Leonard Maltin

Born

12/18/1950

New York City, New York, USA

Leonard Maltin

Biography

Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. He is best known for his eponymous annual book of movie capsule reviews, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, which was published annually from 1969 to 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonard Maltin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For112 Movies

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
★6.5
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
★5.3
The Pixar Story
2007
★7.5
These Amazing Shadows
2011
★7.4
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
★6.9
Junket Whore
1998
★5.5
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
★8.0
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
★7.4
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
★7.3
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
1999
★7.6
Heckler
2007
★5.9
The Making of the Stooges
1984
★9.0
Pablo
2012
★6.9
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
★7.1
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019
★6.8
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
★7.2
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024
★8.0
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
2003
★6.5
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
★7.7
That Guy Dick Miller
2014
★7.0
8 Winds
2021
★4.0
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
★6.3
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
★7.0
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
2011
★5.0
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
2025
★8.0
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
2004
★6.5
The Omen Legacy
2001
★7.0
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
2023
★6.1
James Dean and Me
1995
★8.8
Fanarchy
2015
★6.0
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
★6.8
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
★7.3
Women He's Undressed
2015
★5.4
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
★7.5
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
★6.9
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
2020
★8.0
Only in Theaters
2022
★4.2
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000
★9.0
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
★7.8
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009
★5.6
Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'
1997
★8.0
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached
2009
★6.0
Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives
2020
★7.3
Vittorio D.
2009
★6.3
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
★7.2
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
2008
★7.0
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009
★7.2
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
★10.0
Forgotten Silver
1997
★7.2
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Königin des roten Teppichs
2019
★6.0
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
★7.4
Carl Laemmle
2019
★4.0
John Ford Goes to War
2002
★5.5
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
2000
★7.7
Cinerama Adventure
2002
★7.7
The Secrets of 007
1997
★7.9
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
2000
★8.0
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
★7.0
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
★6.1
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
★8.3
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
★6.0
A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
2003
★8.0
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
★NR
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000
★9.0
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2022
★8.0
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001
★8.0
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
1998
★6.0
Drive-In Movie Memories
2001
★8.0
Bloodsucking Cinema
2007
★5.7
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
★7.0
The Méliès Mystery
2021
★6.9
The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos
2016
★7.2
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
2014
★7.3
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
★8.0
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018
★4.4
Celebrating Dumbo
2001
★8.0
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
2019
★8.4
Cinema Finds Its Voice
2021
★7.0
American Scary
2006
★7.5
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
2010
★8.5
Searchers 2.0
2007
★6.2
Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In
2023
★6.0
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
2019
★6.3
Frank and Ollie... and Mickey
2002
★9.0
Dick Tracy Special
2009
★4.0
The Making of 'Rio Grande'
1993
★5.0
Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
1992
★10.0
Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'
2003
★7.0
Notfilm
2015
★5.0
The Making of High Noon
1992
★6.7
Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece
1997
★8.0
Songs of the Silly Symphonies
2001
★6.3
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001
★6.6
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
★7.5
The Man Behind the Duck
2004
★10.0
W.C. Fields: Straight Up
1986
★9.0
Cinema's First Colors
2021
★NR
The Voice Behind the Mouse
2004
★9.0
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009
★7.5
A Conversation with Fess Parker
2001
★8.0
From Kansas City to Hollywood
2005
★6.0
Alice's Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis
2005
★6.0
Mickey's Cartoon Comeback
2004
★9.0
A Conversation with Joe Grant
2004
★9.0
Marty Sklar, Walt, and EPCOT
2004
★7.0
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
2003
★8.0
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
2007
★5.0
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
2019
★7.6
Studio Tour
2002
★6.0
The Crockett Craze
2001
★6.5
Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons
1989
★8.7
A Conversation with Roy Disney
2004
★8.5