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Top 20 A. O. Scott Quotes (2025 Update)

A. O. Scott Quote: “Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.”

1. “Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “I can’t decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What’s the difference?”

2. “I can’t decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What’s the difference?”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”

3. “A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. “Critical thinking” may be a ubiquitous educational slogan – a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood – but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.”

4. “Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. “Critical thinking” may be a ubiquitous educational slogan – a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood – but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There is no room for doubt and little time.”

5. “As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There is no room for doubt and little time.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.”

6. “The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ERNEST:.”

7. “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ERNEST:.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”

8. “STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.”

9. “Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “It is always the Age of Iron, and the Golden Age is always behind us, giving off a luster that illuminates the terminal shabbiness of our present condition.”

10. “It is always the Age of Iron, and the Golden Age is always behind us, giving off a luster that illuminates the terminal shabbiness of our present condition.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “The origin of criticism lies in an innocent, heartfelt kind of question, one that is far from simple and that carries enormous risk: Did you feel that? Was it good for you? Tell the truth.”

11. “The origin of criticism lies in an innocent, heartfelt kind of question, one that is far from simple and that carries enormous risk: Did you feel that? Was it good for you? Tell the truth.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”

12. “Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.”

13. “Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “The cacophony in my head is completely unmanageable, and it’s out of the failure to blend all those dissonant voices smoothly that whatever individuality I might have has managed to emerge. Imitation is the condition of originality. Or, to put it another way: imitation is the shortest route to and the truest test of proficiency. To mimic a master requires skill and practice, which become the sources of your own mastery.”

14. “The cacophony in my head is completely unmanageable, and it’s out of the failure to blend all those dissonant voices smoothly that whatever individuality I might have has managed to emerge. Imitation is the condition of originality. Or, to put it another way: imitation is the shortest route to and the truest test of proficiency. To mimic a master requires skill and practice, which become the sources of your own mastery.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.”

15. “Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.”

16. “The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.”

17. “Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.”

18. “This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “ADMIRABLY BOLD. There’s something grand about the film’s sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.”

19. “ADMIRABLY BOLD. There’s something grand about the film’s sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.”

— A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott Quote: “Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.”

20. “Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.”

— A. O. Scott

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