Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival
1994
Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in
1993.
He was a film critic for the New York Times between 1999 and 2013.
In 2017 awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Received a BA in English at the University of Chicago.
He served as a film critic for the Chicago Reader (from 1974 until 1985), and then for the Chicago Tribune, before relocating to New York to become a critic and columnist for the Daily News and The New York Times.
In 2013, he joined The Museum of Modern Art team as Adjunct Curator in the Department of Film, before being appointed curator in 2017.