Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic.

He was interviewed in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009).

In this documentary, he discusses early film critics Frank E. Woods, Robert E. Sherwood, and Otis Ferguson, and tells of how, in the 1960s, he, Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, rejected moralizing opposition of the older Bosley Crowther of The New York Times who had railed against violent movies such as Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

In addition to film, Schickel also critiqued and documented cartoons, particularly Peanuts.

Following a series of strokes, he died in Los Angeles on February 18, 2017, eight days after his 84th birthday.