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A. O. Scott

(1966) Journalist United States

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A. O. Scott is a journalist from the United States.

Quick Facts About A. O. Scott

Born: July 10, 1966
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

About A. O. Scott

Anthony Oliver Scott is an American journalist and cultural critic, known for his film and literary criticism. After starting his career at The New York Review of Books, Variety, and Slate, he began writing film reviews for The New York Times in 2000, and became the paper's chief film critic in 2004, a title he shared with Manohla Dargis. In 2023, he moved to The New York Times Book Review.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by A. O. Scott

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

Authenticity

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My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but…

Adults

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Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

Campaigns

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The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the…

Details

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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

Accuracy

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Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a…

Ability

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Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry…

Angry

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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

Accounts

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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts…

Artifacts

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The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone…

Adults

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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

Inspirational

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The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to…

Ability

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War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or…

Bad language

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ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the…

Cinema

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STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.

Letting go

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STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind…

Cinema

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Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

Essentials

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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call…

Argument

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A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

Ambition

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We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,

Ads

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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally…

Brilliant

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