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Mar 17, 2023 · A.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films.
- Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies - The New ...
Today, AO Scott on why after 23 years as a film critic at...
- A.O. Scott - The New York Times
A.O. Scott is a critic at large for The Times’s Book Review,...
- Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies - The New ...
Mar 23, 2023 · Today, AO Scott on why after 23 years as a film critic at “The Times,” he’s now done with the movies, and what his decision reveals about the new realities of American cinema. You can go a ...
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While I occasionally review new fiction and nonfiction, I mostly write essays of varying length that explore the intersection of culture, history, technology and myth. I’m interested in the ways that writers, thinkers and artists hold a mirror up to the world, and how their work illuminates the issues that bedevil our social and political life, oft...
Criticism has been my vocation and my passion for as long as I can remember. I even wrote a book about it, “Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth.” When I was growing up, hanging out in record stores, libraries and movie theaters, my companions were the writers who shared my obsessions and helped me und...
Like every other journalist at the Times, I’m committed to upholding the standards outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. Even though criticism is necessarily opinionated, argumentative and subjective, it also must be truthful, independent and fair. I avoid writing about anyone I know, and keep an appropriate distance from the industries I co...
Feb 21, 2023 · In March, after the Oscars and the end of the 2023 awards season, he will move to The New York Times Book Review to write critical essays, notebooks and reviews that grapple with literature, ideas...
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Feb 9, 2016 · A. O. Scott, Critic Without a Cause. The New York Times film writer has a take on everything but says nothing. By Leon Wieseltier. Doug Chayka. March 2016 Issue. “Y ou must change your life.”...
Oct 7, 2019 · In 2012, New York Times film critic Anthony “Tony” Scott ’87 (writing under his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers. He praised some aspects of the movie and bemoaned others, specifically “its sacrifice of originality on the altar of blockbuster.”
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Learn about A. O. Scott, the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of "Better Living Through Criticism". He is also a Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University and a frequent guest on radio and TV.
