The Criterion Collection
Blair McClendon is an editor, filmmaker, and writer. His film work has screened at film festivals around the world. His writing has been published in n+1, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in New...
Ben Elias is a director and cinematographer from New Zealand. He lives in Brooklyn.
Greg Tate is a Village Voice staff alum, musician, and cultural provocateur who lives high atop Harlem’s Sugar Hill. His books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience,...
Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu is the chief editor and cofounder of Cinema Poetica, a collective of film critics, activists, and researchers in Indonesia. He lives in Jakarta and works as a freelance writer.
Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University and...
Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning filmmaker based in Washington, D.C., whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the American Film Institute. She has documented the lives of LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde (A Litany...
K. Austin Collins is a film critic whose writing has appeared in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He is the author of forthcoming books on American documentary cinema and Black police officers. He lives in Brooklyn.
Nathan Rabin is the former head writer of the A.V. Club and the author of six books, including Weird Al: The Book (with Al Yankovic) and You Don’t Know Me but You Don’t Like Me. He lives in Atlanta with...
Angelica Jade Bastién is a critic for New York magazine’s Vulture site. She lives in Chicago with her boyfriend and four cats.