About
Brent Simon is a film critic for Screen Daily, Paste Magazine and Magill’s Cinema Annual, and a regular contributor Playboy, Yahoo Movies and several other outlets. A former three-term president and current member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Simon served for five-plus years as editor-in-chief and lead film critic of the now-defunct Entertainment Today.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Simon has contributed film criticism, essays and feature pieces for print publications and online sites as diverse as Los Angeles Daily News, New York Magazine’s Vulture, Rotten Tomatoes, Paper, Los Angeles CityBeat, H Magazine, Zeitgeist, IGN, ShockYa, FilmStew, Reelz, Now Playing Magazine, PopSmear and the News & Record (NC). Shared Darkness is his online home, and he thanks you for stopping by.