Howard Thompson (October 25, 1919 – March 10, 2002) was an American journalist and film critic whose career of forty-one years was spent at The New York Times.
Henry Howard Thompson Jr. was born in Natchez, the seat of Mississippi's Adams County.
He later advanced to a reporter who frequently interviewed film personalities and finally became a critic in the late 1950s.
The Village Voice called him "the Virgil of TV guides," and his capsule reviews were labeled "Tiny Thompsons".
[3] He retired from full-time work in 1988 but continued to write the "Critic's Choice" column and the movie listings.