The acting film critic of the Sunday Times, I have written six books, Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Simon & Schuster, 2004) In The Rooms (Hutchinson / St Martins Press 2011) and Scorsese: A Retrospective (Abrams, 2014) Woody Allen: A Retrospective (Abrams 2015), Tarantino: A Retrospective (2017) and Mr Bovary (2018). My writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue and New York. I also teach film history at NYU.