NYT MOVIES: And Now Let’s Review …
By A.O. Scott
Section: Movies
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 17, 2023 at 02:00AM
By A.O. Scott
Section: Movies
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 17, 2023 at 02:00AM
A.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films.
That was the first question I heard after The New York Times hired me as a film critic in the final weeks of 1999. A reporter from Variety found my home phone number and gave me a call — the late-20th-century equivalent of sliding into my DMs.
It was a reasonable thing to ask, and the simple answer was that I was a freelance book critic and youngish father of two small children. I had seen a lot of movies — plenty of people in those days had seen a lot of movies — and reviewed none of them for any publication. I was almost as puzzled as the guy on the phone about my sudden career swerve, and immeasurably more frightened. How could I be vain, dumb or deluded enough to believe that this was a job I could actually do?
And now — more than 23 years later, the middle-aged father of two grown children and the author of 2,293 published film reviews — I’m done.
Though I continued to dabble in literary criticism during my tenure on the movie beat, I’m ready to return to it full-time, as a critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, starting as soon as I find my reading glasses and rebuild my attention span. On my way out the door, as the final credits metaphorically roll, I thought I might try at long last to answer some of the questions I’ve heard most frequently over the years since that phone call.
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