Time: The Flick Filosopher features "snarky, well-informed commentary in a breezy style."

Variety: MaryAnn Johanson is "one of online's finest" film critics.

Yahoo! Internet Life: Would that "that every dinner-party guest were as clever as MaryAnn Johanson."

David Poland, The Hot Button: "The media bubble tells us that Tony 'A.O.' Scott is important to read because he writes reviews for The New York Times. But more people may take The Flick Filosopher more seriously in really deciding what they will see in the theaters, in great part because they make a choice to read MaryAnn Johanson, while checking out The New York Times is part of what one 'must' do as a part of the educated elite." [link]

John Kenneth Muir, author of The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television: "MaryAnn Johanson [has] a deep knowledge and passion for film that [is] truly amazing." [link]

John Scalzi, author of The Rough Guide to the Universe: "I have a secret crush on MaryAnn Johanson, who is a damn smart and funny reviewer..." [link]

Facets.org: "Entertaining and caustic..."

Mark Reviews Movies: "[Q]uite possibly, the funniest, cleverest, wittiest critic on the web." [link]

VideoCanada.ca: "A film critic with an uncompromising style that some readers love to hate." [link]

MovieMartyr.com: "MaryAnn Johanson is the death of cinema."

I Viddied It on the Screen: "A great writer... a fairly lousy critic, and a bit of a bitch." [link]

low iq canadian: "A goddess of snark." [link]