Matt Zoller Seitz (born December 26, 1968) is an American film and television critic, author and film-maker.

Career

Matt Zoller Seitz is editor-at-large at RogerEbert.com, and the television critic for '' New York'' magazine and Vulture.com, as well as a member of the

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s board of jurors. He was previously a television critic at

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and ''

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'', and a film critic for ''

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''. Prior to this he was a regular media columnist for the ''

Dallas Observer ''Dallas Observer'' is a free digital and print publication based in Dallas, Texas. The ''Observer'' publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music, and arts, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circ ...

''. He founded the film and media criticism blog ''The House Next Door''. Seitz is known as a leader in the creation of video essays, frequently featured on ''Moving Image Source'' and ''The L Magazine'', and served as the publisher of ''PressPlay'', a site for video-based film and television criticism. He was a finalist for the 1994

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. Seitz's second book, ''The

Wes Anderson Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are known for their eccentricity and unique visual and narrative styles. They often contain themes of grief, loss of innocence, and dysfunctional families. Cited by ...

Collection'', was published by Abrams Books in 2013. In February 2015, ''The Wes Anderson Collection:

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'' was published by Abrams Books. ''The Wes Anderson Collection'' was praised for its design and layout, which was intended to suggest the look and feel of an Anderson film and suggest that the reader was being taken on a tour of the filmmaker's imagination. "This book is the future," wrote Michael Sicinski in ''Cineaste''. ''

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Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion'' written by Seitz and with illustrations by Max Dalton was published by Abrams Books in November 2015. His latest book, The Press Gang, co-written with Godfrey Cheshire and

Armond White Armond White (born ) is an American film and music critic who writes for ''National Review'' and ''Out''. He was previously the editor of '' CityArts'' (2011–2014), the lead film critic for the alternative weekly ''New York Press'' (1997–201 ...

and published by Seven Stories Press in 2020, is a compilation of Seitz's long-form film criticism written in the alternative weekly ''

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'' during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He wrote, directed, and edited the feature film ''Home'' (2005).

Personal life

Seitz grew up mostly in

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. He is the son of jazz pianist David Zoller (1941–2020). He was married to Jennifer Dawson from 1994 until her death on April 27, 2006. They had two children, Hannah and James Seitz. Seitz married his second wife, Nancy Dawson, who was his first wife's sister and the ex-wife of his brother Rich, in February 2017. They divided their time between Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

. Nancy Dawson died of cancer on April 27, 2020, and his father died in November of that year.

Bibliography

*''Brad Pitt'' (1996) () *''The Wes Anderson Collection'' (2013) () *''The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2015) () *''Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion'' (2015) () *'' TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time'' (2016), Matt Zoller Seitz and

Alan Sepinwall Alan Sepinwall (born October 19, 1973) is an American television reviewer and writer. He spent 14 years as a columnist with ''The Star-Ledger'' in Newark until leaving the newspaper in 2010 to work for the entertainment news website HitFix. He ...

() *''The Oliver Stone Experience'' (2016) () *''Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone'' (2017), Matt Zoller Seitz and Simon Abrams () *''The Sopranos Sessions'' (2019), Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall *''The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon'' (2022)

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