• Anthony Oliver Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and cultural critic, known for his film and literary criticism.
  • A.O. Scott is a critic at large for The Times’s Book Review, writing about literature and ideas. He joined The Times in 2000 and was a film critic until early 2023.
  • A. O. Scott is a film critic for The New York Times and the author of Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.
  • New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2022. The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.
  • Read Movie and TV reviews from A.O. Scott on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics reviews are aggregated to tally a Certified Fresh...
  • Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic...
  • In 2012, New York Times film critic Anthony “Tony” Scott ’87 (writing under his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers.
  • A.O. Scott became a film critic for the New York Times in 2000 and was named Chief Film Critic in 2004.
  • A.O. Scott's main areas of interest are contemporary world cinema and the pratice and philosophy of criticism.