David was born in Chicago, IL on December 18, 1953 and passed away peacefully on May 21, 2019. The first child of Andrew and Peggy Thomson, he was a devoted older brother to Scott, Mary and Rob. David ...

“I doubt there is any such thing as an antiwar film,” veteran movie critic David Thomson writes in his new survey of war movies, “The Fatal Alliance.” “In the dark, whatever the official motive or the ...

This past week I happily immersed myself in the latest book by protean film critic/biographer/sometime novelist David Thomson, A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors. Even as he approaches ...

Good critics have the ability to compel you, even toward artists you are not particularly interested in. They can also make you reconsider your own opinions. David Thomson is best known as the author ...

Film critic Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film ) gives cinephiles and film novices alike a comprehensive yet personal list of 1,000 must-see films. Arranged alphabetically—a ...

David Thomson is one of film's more thoughtful critics. He's also a crank. Scan his witty, withering put-downs in "The Biographical Dictionary of Film" — a must for cinephiles who don't mind their ...

“We all of us sleep with strangers in our heads,” David Thomson declares near the beginning of Sleeping With Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. That sentence as aptly describes the physical ...