Joe Morgenstern is the film critic of The Wall Street Journal. He writes the Friday "Review/Film" column in the Weekend Journal and supervises the Leisure & Arts page's coverage of Hollywood as a creative business. He also reviews films for CNBC. He joined the Journal in May 1995 and is based in Santa Monica, Calif. In 2005 he won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

Mr. Morgenstern was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times before he became the theater and movie critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1959. He moved to Newsweek as movie critic in 1965 and was a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner from 1983 to 1988. He has written scripts for television, including "The Boy In the Plastic Bubble" and several episodes of "Law & Order." Mr. Morgenstern is co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics.

A graduate of Lehigh University, Mr. Morgenstern received a bachelor's degree in English and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.