Actually, Anne Thompson isn't arriving. She's adding to her role, though, and will now be IndieWire editor-at-large as well as blogger on film and Hollywood. But Todd McCarthy is leaving, barely five months after signing on post-Variety. He is going to the new Hollywood Reporter as chief film critic.
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