Ty Burr
Movie Critic
A film critic and pop culture columnist for The Boston Globe for two decades, from 2002 to 2021, Ty currently reviews movies for The Washington Post and writes “Ty Burr’s Watch List” (tyburrswatchlist.com), a subscription e-mail newsletter for streaming movie and TV recommendations and cultural commentary; he also writes feature commentary and reviews for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books "Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame" (2013), "The Best Old Movies for Families" (2007), and the e-book "The 50 Movie Starter Kit: What to Know if You Want to Know What You're Talking About" (2013). He wrote reviews and features on many topics for Entertainment Weekly throughout the 1990s and programmed movies for HBO/Cinemax in the 1980s. A member of the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics, Ty has taught courses in film and criticism at Boston University, Tufts University, and Emerson College. Burr studied film at Dartmouth and New York University. He lives in Newton, MA. In 2017, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
