Anthony Lane

Anthony Lane (born 1962) is a British journalist, currently a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.

Lane lives in Cambridge with Allison Pearson, a British writer and former Daily Mail columnist. They have a daughter, Eveline (born January 1996), and a son, Thomas (born August 1999).

Lane attended Sherborne School and graduated with a degree in English from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also did graduate work on the poet T. S. Eliot. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and book reviewer for The Independent, where he was appointed deputy literary editor in 1989. In 1991, Lane was appointed film critic for the Independent on Sunday.

In 1993, Lane was asked by The New Yorker's then-editor, Tina Brown, to join the magazine as a film critic. Lane currently shares the role with David Denby. He also contributes longer pieces on film subjects — such as Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton and Grace Kelly — as well as other aspects of literature (Ian Fleming and Patrick Leigh Fermor) and the arts (The Adventures of Tintin).

A collection of 140 of his The New Yorker reviews, essays, and profiles was published in 2002 under the title Nobody's Perfect — a nod to the final line of the film Some Like it Hot. A profile of the film's director, Billy Wilder, ends the book.

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