NYMag's David Edelstein is not my favorite film critic--he can be, quite often, a bit sloppy (or is it just that he isn't all that smart ?)
He's not mine, either. I don't know if you pay attention to TV reviews, but their TV critics are far superior. Matt Zoller Seitz, their lead TV critic, is also a good film critic who maintains Roger Ebert's website. Their next-in-line reviewers are good, also.
For film, I've always prefer
Slate. But Dana Stevens, the regular film critic, is no longer reviewing many films for some reason, so most of their reviews have been written by assorted people.
Then there's
The New Yorker, and while Anthony Lane is an intelligent and amusing writer I sometimes think he tries too hard for jokes at the expense of actually analyzing the movies. And he's far pickier than I would be.
So I guess that leaves the
New York Times, which is usually pretty good, IMO.