In 2000, Maslin helped found the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York.
In the documentary, Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum recalls the excitement of having a woman as the lead reviewer at The New York Times.
In a 2005 interview with Aaron Aradillas at Rockcritics.com, Maslin explained she quit reviewing films because she experienced burnout, expressing gratitude it ended when it did.
[11] From 2000 she worked as a book reviewer for The New York Times; from 2015 as a contributor as opposed to being their full-time critic.
In her review for Dennis Lehane's novel Small Mercies, she speculated it might be the author's last concluding with "As epitaphs go, you could do a lot worse.