Author Spotlight

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor at large of RogerEbert.com, a staff writer for New York magazine, and the author or coauthor of best-selling books on film and television, including “Mad Men” Carousel, “The Sopranos” Sessions, the multivolume Wes Anderson Collection series, The Oliver Stone Experience, and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone.”

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Sculpted to Life

Imbuing stop-motion animation with vivid humanity, this ambitious take on a classic tale grapples with the realities of human suffering, fascism, and the parent-child bond.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Fosse Time
All That Jazz echoes the tropes of the classic backstage movie musical, but it’s also a groundbreaking work of cinema, thanks largely to Bob Fosse and editor Alan Heim’s avant-garde approach to editing. In this Criterion video essay, critic Ma…

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Harold and Maude: Life and How to Live It

Hal Ashby’s delicately off-kilter May-December romance stars two of the unlikeliest countercultural icons of the seventies.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Easy Rider: Wild at Heart
Easy Rider is a record of a certain time in American history, and a chronicle of a culture clash that never quite ended.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Mon oncle

Jacques Tati’s second tale about the whimsical wanderer Monsieur Hulot, this classic comedy presents a world in which characters are defined solely by their actions.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Man Bites Dog: Cinema of Entrapment

Anticipating reality TV, Rémy Belvaux’s faux cinema verité satire follows a film crew documenting a mass murderer’s rampage.

By Matt Zoller Seitz