Anne Thompson

Anne Thompson is a film columnist at "Variety" and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she writes the "Thompson on Hollywood" blog. Born and raised in New York City, she was a contributor to "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Observer" and "Wired". She served as the Deputy Film Editor at "The Hollywood Reporter" from January 2005 to March 2007 and before that was the West Coast Editor of "Premiere", from 1996 to 2002.

Before joining Premiere, Thompson tracked behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at "Entertainment Weekly" and as West Coast Editor for "Film Comment Magazine". From 1985 to 1993 she wrote the film industry column "Risky Business" for "LA Weekly" and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, she teaches the fall semester of "Sneak Previews" for UCLA Extension.

In December 2006, she co-hosted "Ebert & Roeper", as Roger Ebert was still recovering from illness. Thompson and Roeper reviewed "The Good Shepherd", "Venus", "We Are Marshall", "Night at the Museum", and "The Dead Girl". They agreed on every movie except "We Are Marshall", which earned an enthusiastic thumbs-up from Roeper, and "Night at the Museum", which earned a "mild" thumbs-up from Thompson.