John Anderson is a film and television critic for the Wall Street Journal and America magazine. He has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Arts & Leisure section, and Variety. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, Film Comment, Artforum, and The Village Voice.
He is the author of Sundancing (Avon), Edward Yang (University of Illinois), I Wake Up Screening (Billboard) with Laura Kim, and Merciless Beauty: The Films of Pirjo Honkasalo (Siltala). With David Sterritt, he edited The B List, a collection by the National Society of Film Critics.
John has been a CCA member since 2017.