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“N.P. is one of those rare critics who recognizes his job is not to synopsize, but to...criticize. He parses today's language of film with the care of an Ivy League professor and the passion of a true film geek.” — Warren Etheredge, founder, The Warren Report
“A fresh and informed way of thinking, working and sharing…an aggressive resistance to the restraints of political correctness and corporate inbreeding endemic in the criticism industry.” — Chris Mergerson
“…as dead-on as it gets these days in film writing…a justifiable reaction against the applause given irony.”
— Mark Moskowitz, director, Stone Reader
“…smart and meticulous…” — John Simon
“…a torch singer trapped in the body of a film critic.” — Julie Cascioppo
“…delightfully unpopular views…” — Neal Schindler, Seattle Weekly
“…a great critic who is always worth reading.” — Matt Zoller Seitz
“Although I often don't agree with your opinions, I find that they are some of the most incisive and well thought-out in all of film criticism, whether in print or online.” — Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly
“Sheer pleasure to read…a vacation from the vacuous crap that passes for criticism on the arts.” — Robert M. Goodman
“…even when I disagree with you, you teach me things I didn't know about my own opinions.” — Dan Harper, Senses of Cinema
“brilliant…skewering of the clubby go-along-to-get-along school of film criticism…spot-on.”
— Chris Kelsey, JazzTimes
“I just wanted to send props for your wonderful screed — it made me laugh, which is always a better bet than crying.”
— Amy Alexander, contributor, The Nation
“[Director Judy Irving and I] appreciated that you noticed things that she'd put in there deliberately, things that, so far, no one else has noticed. There is one ironic aspect to your review that I can't help but mention. In the reveal where the camera is pulling back from my dishes…if you look carefully you'll see poking out behind them a bottle of...hair conditioner.” — Mark Bittner, scruffy star and subject, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
“I don't know anyone
simultaneously so articulate and so wrong-headed about so many things.
But that's why I like reading you.” — Tom Tangney, KIRO Radio
“I liked what you had to say about the movies of '05...
btw, [I] was recently in Seattle and read a copy of The Stranger (not the Camus version but the local version). Enough said.”
— Roger L. Simon, mystery novelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter
“Your reviews revive the passion I felt for movies while poring over Kael and Sarris anthologies and Minneapolis alt-weeklies — this was back when we looked forward to Wednesdays, before the Village Voice bought out all those papers around 1998 or ‘99 and replaced them with generic disaffectedness.” — Iris Key
“amazingly insightful” — Matthew O'Brien, author,
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
“I knew it was only a matter of time before a story about two guys repeatedly coming out of boxes in their underwear would be described as homoerotic.” — Shane Carruth, director, Primer
“Thompson's description of the score — that [Jonny] Greenwood ‘writes music as if he learned everything he knows about composing by taking a brickbat to hornets' nests’ — is dead on.” — Sarah D. Bunting, Tomato Nation
“I recommend taking a look at critic N.P. Thompson's list of the best and worst of 2005. Some great reading…”
— Clive Davis, blogger, The Spectator
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