By JOHN WALSH Have You Seen...? By David Thomson ALLEN LANE Pounds 22 (1007pp) Pounds 19.80 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 David Thomson is the world's leading sage about film. Dulwich- educated and now living in San Francisco, he's a polymath rather than a critic.

By Anonymous Caught in the Web, print and new media writers debate the pros and cons of online, where everyone's a critic.

By TOBY YOUNG Culture Pauline Kael, the late film critic of The New Yorker, must be spinning in her grave. In her 1971 review of Dirty Harry (pictured), she described Clint Eastwood as a walking advertisement for fascism.

By Craig D. Lindsey, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 13--In case you haven't heard, criticism is under attack. And so far, the body count among film critics is high.

NEW YORK - Bob Dylan, the unofficial poet laureate of the rock 'n' roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare and Willem de Kooning.