#a o scott

[antoinemaillard]

Portrait of film critics A.O.Scott for the New York Times

AD Felicia Vasquez

[todd--chavez]

AY, OH, SCOTT

[diivdeep]

‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech

Sarah Polley adapts Miriam Toews’s novel into a timely political parable with a stellar ensemble cast.

[diivdeep]

A O Scott reviews movie Russian Ark, directed by Alexander Sokurov; Sergey Dreiden stars; photo (M)

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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth by A. O. Scott with a pile of Shatto Milk Company Strawberry, Chocolate, Vanilla, and Caramel Sea Salt Ice Cream scoops with cherries on top. Jacket by Darren Haggar.

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Penguin Hotline Author Recommendations from A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott, author of the forthcoming title Better Living Through Criticism (out in February 2016), shares "The Five Books of Criticism that Changed My Life" with the Penguin Hotline: 1. W. H. Aud...

A. O. Scott discusses Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth, in conversation with Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, Saturday, April 14 at the Co-op.

[yougotek]

I would much rather be interesting or get something started— give readers and other people something that’s useful for them to think about, however they want to think about it.

The always brilliant, A O Scott

[joannalannister]

Something profound has been happening in our television over the past decade, some end-stage reckoning. It is the era not just of mad men, but also of sad men and, above all, bad men. Don is at once the heir and precursor to Tony Soprano, that avatar of masculine entitlement who fended off threats to the alpha-dog status he had inherited and worked hard to maintain. Walter White, the protagonist of “Breaking Bad,” struggled, early on, with his own emasculation and then triumphantly (and sociopathically) reasserted the mastery that the world had contrived to deny him. The monstrousness of these men was inseparable from their charisma, and sometimes it was hard to tell if we were supposed to be rooting for them or recoiling in horror. We were invited to participate in their self-delusions and to see through them, to marvel at the mask of masculine competence even as we watched it slip or turn ugly. Their deaths were (and will be) a culmination and a conclusion: Tony, Walter and Don are the last of the patriarchs.

A.O. Scott, discussing the rise of what he refers to as "honest" portrayals of women in media