It was 10 years ago today that I started reviewing movies for the Post with a critique of Audrey Wells’ “Guinevere.” This forgotten Miramax release starred Stephen Rea and Sarah Polley in an older man/younger woman story that, if memory serves correctly, was more than a little similar to the upcoming “An Education.” I had reviewed movies from 1981 to 1989 for the Bergen Record, and thankfully returned to the beat after a decade spent mostly in editing, culminating in a stint as The Post’s metropolitan editor. My whip-smart boss Katherine Pushkar, asked me if I was the long-serving daily newspaper critic for a Manhattan-based daily. Well, technically I’m suppose I’m the longest continually-serving full time critic. My venerable colleague Vincent A. Musetto starting reviewing for the Post in the ’80s, but he took a lengthy break from daily reviewing in ’98 and ’99, returning to the beat the following year. When I started in September 1999, Janet Maslin and Caryn James were finishing up their tenures as film critics at the Times, with A.O. Scott (and the long-departed Elvis Mitchell, along with Stephen Holden) arriving at the beginning of the new century. Jack Mathews and Jamie Bernard, both now gone, were still holding down the fort at the Snooze. At the Post, I joined Jonathan Foreman and Hannah Brown, both of who later left, as did Megan Lehmann, Deborah Birnbaum and Russell Scott Smith. Our other Smith, Kyle, started in 2005. Anyway, thanks for reading and for all the feedback (negative as well as positive) that I’ve received from you readers over the past decade. Well, maybe not the spam attack for panning “Terminator 3.”

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