He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor,[1] where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music.

[2] Sterritt has also written influentially on the film and culture of the 1950s, the Beat Generation, French New Wave cinema, Robert Altman, Spike Lee and Terry Gilliam, and the TV series, The Honeymooners.

Sterritt participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Antonio das Mortes, Au hasard Balthazar, The Crowd, Out 1: Spectre, A Page of Madness, Vagabond, Vertigo, Wavelength, and A Woman Under the Influence.

He then moved to The Christian Science Monitor, where he worked as the newspaper's Film Critic and Special Correspondent.

[7] In 1998 Sterritt edited a book of interviews and conversations with Godard by critics, scholars, and journalists, from the 1960s to the 1990s, illuminating the filmmaker's life, work, and ideas.