Career
As of July 2015 he has 887 reviews collected on the website Rotten Tomatoes. Hinson has been cited as a critic who is unpopular with his fellow critics, as he is not afraid to give a polarized review. He lauded Hudson Hawk (1991) for instance, which was universally panned.
Hinson wrote an essay on Montgomery Clift, entitled “Some Notes on Method Acting” for Sight & Sound in 1984.
He also reviewed for Film Comment in the mid 1980s.