The Criterion Collection
Moeko Fujii is a scholar and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Aperture, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She writes a regular column on film for Orion magazine.
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...
Historian and essayist Enrique Krauze was born in Mexico in 1947. He is the author of Mexico: Biography of Power (1997) and Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America (2011), among many other books, and is the editor in chief...
Chelsea Phillips-Carr is a film critic and editor based in Toronto.
Alexander Nemerov is the author of Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (2005), Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine (2016), and Summoning Pearl Harbor (2017), among other books. He is the chair of the Art and Art History...
Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, and a contributing writer for Cineaste magazine. His books include Discomfort and Joy: The Cinema of Bill Forsyth (2011) and The New...
Elena Gorfinkel is a senior lecturer in film studies at King’s College London and the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s. Her criticism appears in Sight & Sound, Art Monthly, Cinema Scope, and other publications.
Ira Bhaskar is a professor of cinema studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has written widely on melodrama, Indian cinema, and other subjects, and is a coauthor of Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009). She is currently editing...
A. L. Kennedy has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Literary Award, the Costa Book of the Year Award, and the Heinrich Heine Prize. She has written nine novels, six short-story collections, three books...
Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and critic for the New Yorker. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2024 and 2025. His 2024 debut novel, Great Expectations, was a finalist for the National Book Critics...