Anton Dolin (film critic)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Dolin.

Anton Dolin
Anton Dolin in 2024
Born	Anton Vladimirovich Vorobyov (1976-01-23) 23 January 1976 Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of Philology, 1997)
Occupations	Film critic journalist radio host editor podcaster blogger
Years active	1997–present
Relatives	Veronika Dolina (mother)
Awards	GQ Award in the category "Author of the Year" (2019), Award of the Russian Guild of Film Critics (2004, 2011)

Anton Vladimirovich Dolin (né Vorobyov; Russian: Антон Владимирович Долин né Воробьёв) is a Russian film critic, journalist, radio host, blogger and podcaster. He was the chief editor of the Iskusstvo Kino magazine from 2017 to 2022 and the regular film reviewer of Evening Urgant from 2012 to 2020.

He is also a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and a voter for the Golden Globes.

Biography

Anton Dolin is a son of a Soviet poet Veronika Dolina and professor of physics Vladimir Vorobyov. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of Philology) in 1997 as a teacher of Russian literature. In 2000, he graduated from the doctoral program of Gorky Institute of World Literature, writing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences on "The history of the Soviet fairy-tale novel," which he did not end up defending.

He worked as a host for the Echo of Moscow from 1997 to 2003 and for Radio Mayak from 2007 to 2019. He has also worked for such newspapers and magazines as Moskovskiye Novosti (2006–2007), Expert (2006–2013), The New Times (2008–2017), Vedomosti (2011–2014), Gazeta.Ru (2012–2013), Afisha (2013–2017), and Meduza (since 2017). He was the regular film reviewer of the Vesti FM from 2010 to 2019, and then of the Silver Rain Radio. In 2012 Dolin joined the staff of the Evening Urgant late-night show as a host of the film review section. In 2020, he was fired from Channel One for publishing a negative review on Andrei Kravchuk's Union of Salvation for Meduza.

In 2017 Anton Dolin became the editor-in-chief of the Iskusstvo Kino film magazine. In 2021 he started his own YouTube channel Radio Dolin, supported by Meduza. He is the co-host of Galina Yuzefovich's podcast Book bazaar (Russian: Книжный базар, Knizhny bazar) since 2021.

Public activity

Anton Dolin speaking at a rally for solidarity with Ukraine, in Berlin on 24 February 2023

Dolin claims to be 'a follower of democracy and liberalism'. He supported Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny despite the fact that they had a conflict over the dual citizenship of a Kremlin-linked journalist Sergey Brilyov.

In 2013, Dolin opposed the Russian gay propaganda law and expressed support to the Russian LGBT community. In 2014, he supported Euromaidan and criticized the Russian government for interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In September 2020, Dolin supported the Belarusian protests. On 7 March 2022, after protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dolin fled to Riga in Latvia following death threats by Russian ultranationalists.

In 2020, he supported Lubov Arcus during a public scandal in social media that led to her resignation from Seans magazine.

He is a member of the public council of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Artistic preferences

Dolin chose following movies for the Sight & Sound's 2012 survey on the greatest films in history:

• Eraserhead by David Lynch
• The Idiots by Lars von Trier
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Steven Spielberg
• Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky
• My Friend Ivan Lapshin by Aleksei German
• The Word by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Phantom of Liberty by Luis Buñuel
• Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
• The Nibelungs by Fritz Lang

Anton Dolin calls Manoel de Oliveira his favourite film director and Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Luigi Nono his favourite composers. In 2020 he has also mentioned The Beatles as his favourite music band.