A.O. Scott's Deprature from Film Criticism

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A.O. Scott has been the New York Times film critic since 2000. He is leaving that position to write about other things. Not retiring, just retiring as a film critic. Why would somebody give up such a dream job? You can hear some of his reasoning in this NYT podcast The Daily...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/p...MIGm5vDSJBA1Fk

Brings up lots of the issues the film industry is going through of late and how it made Mr. Scott feel more and more irrelevant as a critic.
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