Her writing has appeared in various publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Observer and Wired.
Thompson covered behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and as West Coast Editor for Film Comment.
[3][4] She then served as a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she started Thompson on Hollywood in March 2007.
[11][12] Thompson participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where she listed her ten favorite films as follows: The Apartment (1960), Bringing Up Baby (1938), A Clockwork Orange (1971), High and Low (1963), I Know Where I'm Going!
(1945), The Lady Eve (1941), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Rio Grande (1950), The Wild Bunch (1969).