Movies - searchCritics

Example

example.js

const { Movies } = require('nytimes-api');
const movies = new Movies('your-super-secret-api-key');

movies.searchCritics('A. O. Scott', data => console.log(data);

What does it do?

searchCritics searches for Critics on the New York Times' database. The code example above searches for a critic called A. O. Scott and logs information about them.

Example Response

example-response.json

{ display_name: 'A. O. Scott',
    sort_name: 'A. O. Scott',
    status: 'full-time',
    bio:
     'A. O. Scott joined The New York Times as a film critic in January 2000, and was named a chief critic in 2004. Previously, Mr. Scott had been the lead Sunday book reviewer for Newsday and a frequent contributor to Slate, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. \n<br/><br/>\nIn the 1990s he served on the editorial staffs of Lingua Franca and The New York Review of Books. He also edited "A Bolt from the Blue and
  Other Essays," a collection by Mary McCarthy, which was published by The New York Review of Books in 2002. \n<br/><br/>\nMr. Scott was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 2010, the same year he served as
  co-host (with Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune) on the last season of "At the Movies," the syndicated film-reviewing program started by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.\n<br/><br/>\nA frequent presence on radio and
  television, Mr. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University and the author of Better Living Through Criticism, forthcoming in 2016 from The Penguin Press. A collection of his film writing
  will be published by Penguin in 2017. \n<br/><br/>\nHe lives in Brooklyn with his family.',
    seo_name: 'A-O-Scott',
    multimedia:
     { resource:
        { type: 'image',
          src:
           'http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/10/07/topics/ao-scott/ao-scott-articleInline.jpg',
          height: 163,
          width: 220,
          credit: 'Earl Wilson/<br/>The New York Times' } } }