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Anthony O. "Tony" Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for The New York Times newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining The Times, Scott was a book critic for Newsday as well as a contributor to the The New York Review of Books and Slate.

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Movie Review | 'Disney’s A Christmas Carol': Ghosts of Technology Present

“Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, a branded piece of shiny seasonal entertainment, uses the digital technique of performance capture and the enhancements of 3-D projection to deliver a big, noisy and sometimes ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Zemeckis,  Jim Carrey,  Gary Oldman,  George C. Scott,  Magoo (musician)

Movie Review | 'Precious': Howls of a Life, Buried Deep Within

Claireece Jones, the Harlem teenager at the center of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” lives in a world of specific and overwhelming horror. She goes by her middle name, Precious, which seems like a cruel taunt, since nearly everyone ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gabourey Sidibe,  Paula Patton,  Oprah Winfrey,  Tyler Perry,  Lenny Kravitz

Film: Unleashing Life’s Wild Things

A FEW weekends ago I sat near the back of the biggest theater in my local multiplex, part of a packed house watching Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are.” The film had just opened to reviews that ranged from grouchy to ecstatic, and to quite a bit ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wes Anderson,  Spike Jonze,  Maurice Sendak,  Roald Dahl,  Neil Gaiman

Movie Review | 'La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet': Creating Dialogue From Body Language

In “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,” his 36th documentary in more than 40 years, Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into the stately and elegant Palais Garnier in Paris, observing rehearsals, staff meetings and, finally, performances of seven dances, ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Frederick Wiseman,  William Butler (musician)

Movie Review | 'Motherhood': Manhattan Mom, Burning Home Fires at Both Ends

Watching “Motherhood,” in which Uma Thurman plays a Manhattan mom juggling kids, dog, marriage and blogging duties, I could not help but recall some of the many distinguished literary explorations of similar predicaments: “A Room of One’s Own,” by ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Uma Thurman,  Virginia Woolf,  Sylvia Plath,  Adrienne Rich,  Katherine Dieckmann

Movie Review | 'Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant': Amid Vampires, Boy Meets Girl, Complete With Monkey’s Tail

Darren (Chris Massoglia) has a life that’s hectic in the usual teenage ways. He’s a good student with a bad-boy best friend named Steve (Josh Hutcherson) and loving if somewhat intrusive parents. Darren’s afterlife, however, is a whole different story. ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Weitz,  Josh Hutcherson,  Brian Helgeland,  Harry Potter,  David Lynch

Movie Review | 'Antichrist': In Satan’s Church, an Eden Besieged

Women: intrinsically evil or tragically misunderstood? If this strikes you as a fruitful topic of discussion, then you may wish to see — or perhaps I should say endure — Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” a film that has already set off carefully ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Willem Dafoe,  Lars von Trier,  Emily Watson,  Nicole Kidman

Film: Films of ’62: When Eras Collided

“THE Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” John Ford’s great, autumnal western, dramatizes a moment of historical transition. No one involved quite knows it at the time, but the shooting that gives the film its title the ambiguous slaying of a bad guy played ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Ford,  Lee Marvin,  John Wayne,  Jules Feiffer,  David Lean

Movie Review | 'Law Abiding Citizen': Revenge Is a Dish Best Served by a Robot

“Law Abiding Citizen,” a blunt and sadistic revenge thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, occasionally pauses from the mayhem to stage a solemn debate about law, justice and morality. Mr. Butler, playing a family man whose wife and daughter ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jamie Foxx,  Gerard Butler,  Gary Gray (politician),  Leslie Bibb,  Colm Meaney

Movie Review | 'Black Dynamite': Action With Soul

It takes skill to make a movie bad on purpose, but movies that are bad by accident can be a lot more fun. That paradox is the main lesson of “Black Dynamite,” a painstaking parody of some of the lesser examples of the blaxploitation genre that ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Scott Sanders,  Michael Jai White,  Quentin Tarantino,  Robert Rodriguez

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