The differences between a reviewer and a critic.

Throughout my blog I have been interchanging reviewer and critic. However, after reading an article from Stanford University, they are completely different. A film reviewer writers for Newspapers and weekly magazines, and their audience is reading this review primarily to figure out whether they would like to go see the film or not. The reviewer is sharing their opinion, and helping their reader appreciate the art of film. The critic, on the other hand, writes essays about films usually for journals or classy magazines. The audience usually reads these essays to better understand film, not to figure out how to spend a Saturday evening. Critics usually have a good background on how films are made, and their history. Movie critics write for people who care about movies as an art form.

A popular movie critic, is A.O. Scott. He was originally a Sunday book reviewer for Newsday, and he also had many other publications before he became a film critic for the New York Times.

Unfortunately, the public interchanged reviewer and critic too, so according to society, A.O. Scott is a reviewer as well.