A.O. Scott
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A.O. Scott Says Goodbye to Film Criticism
A.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films.
‘Moving On’ Review: Cracking Jokes and Settling Scores
Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda team up in an awkward comedy about two women contemplating the murder of a predatory man.
’65’ Review: An Extraterrestrial Adam Driver Lands on Earth
Millions of years ago, a guy from another planet landed on this one. Like most survivors, he had a moody little girl with him.
‘La Civil’ Review: A Mother’s Desperation
The violence of Mexico’s drug cartels is the backdrop for Teodora Ana Mihai’s first dramatic feature.
‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt
Robert Guédiguian’s jaunty new film places a young romance against the backdrop of post-colonial Mali in the early 1960s.
When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster
Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of...
‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise
Albert Serra’s languorous new film is a dreamy meditation on post-colonial geopolitics.
‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe
Liam Neeson and Neil Jordan try to breathe new life into Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled hero.
‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials
Channing Tatum returns as Florida’s favorite male exotic dancer, romancing a restless socialite played by Salma Hayek Pinault.
‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast
Alberto Sordi stars as an idealistic Italian Everyman caught up in a changing postwar world in this rediscovered comedy from the ’60s.