Chris Nashawaty

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Chris Nashawaty (born 1969) [1] is a former movie critic for Entertainment Weekly . He currently works at Netflix Tudum . [2]

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Nashawaty is the author of the book The Future Was Now published in 2024. [3]

Education and career

Nashawaty has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He also has a bachelor's degree in arts from Connecticut College.

After college, Nashawaty was a reporter for Reuters in Jerusalem. Then he became a writer, editor, and movie critic for Entertainment Weekly (EW). He spent 25 years at EW.

Nashawaty has reviewed a book for The New York Times . [4] He has written for Sports Illustrated . [5] Nashawaty has written for Inc. . [6] His article has also appeared in Fast Company [7] and AARP. [8] Nashawaty's writing has appeared in Esquire [9] and Esquire UK. [10]

Books

Anthony Lane reviewed The Future Was Now in The New Yorker . [11] Chris Vognar reviewed the book for the Los Angeles Times . [12] Vanity Fair published an excerpt from the book. [13] Mike Householder reviewed The Future Was Now in The Associated Press. [14] Wired magazine published an adapted excerpt from the book. [15] Hamilton Cain reviewed the book in the Minneapolis Star Tribune . [16] The Seattle Times republished the review. [17]

Allan Fallow reviewed Nashawaty's book Caddyshack in The Washington Post . The 2018 book is about the 1980 sports comedy film Caddyshack starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray. [18]

Nashawaty's book on the American film producer Roger Corman — published in 2013 and titled Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie — was reviewed in The New York Times by Jason Zinoman. [19] Roger Ebert published an excerpt from the book. [20]

Personal life

Nashawaty lives in Los Angeles with his family. [1]

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