The following announcement is distributed on behalf of Film Editor Joshua Rothkopf, Deputy Editor Matt Brennan, and Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment and Arts Craig Nakano:
Amy Nicholson, a veteran Los Angeles movie critic, journalist and podcaster, will grow to be the paper’s movie critic after a months-long search.
“Hollywood is my pleasure, my gas and my house,” Nicholson mentioned. “I’m honored to uphold the legacy of the Los Angeles Times because the paper’s new chief movie critic. And I am unable to wait to have a entrance row seat as at present’s creatives display the enduring energy of the large display.”
“Our readers take movie criticism severely, and my dedication to showcasing the most effective in that discipline is unwavering,” mentioned editor Joshua Rothkopf. “I’m thrilled to have Amy, a author of dazzling perception and elegance, come on board.”
Nicholson joins a crew that has gained three Pulitzer Prizes for criticism up to now 10 years, together with his predecessor within the position, Justin Chang, who gained this yr’s award for his work on the Times in 2023.
Honored by teams together with the Assn. of Alternative Newsmedia, the SoCal Journalism Awards and the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, Nicholson beforehand served as a movie critic at LA Weekly beginning in 2013, then at MTV News beginning in 2016. He has written for publications together with the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post, the Guardian and Rolling Stone. He is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. and the National Society of Film Critics, and has served on the juries of Sundance and SXSW, in addition to the FIPRESCI juries of the Moscow International Film Festival and the Cairo International Film Festival, amongst others.
Along with comic Paul Scheer, Nicholson co-hosts the “Unspooled” podcast, which seeks to create an inventory of the 100 biggest movies of all time. She is a proud Lakers fan and gained the blue ribbon at this yr’s Los Angeles County Fair for her sugar cookies.
He begins in his position on Monday.
