A. O. Scott
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Anthony O. 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 New York Review of Books and Slate.
Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, including Classical High School, before graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in literature. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
