The Criterion Collection
Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of three books about music. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, and her music writing has been nominated for a Grammy Award. She...
Dan Callahan is the author of Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman (2012), Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave (2014), two volumes of The Art of American Screen Acting (2018 and 2019), The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock (2020), and the...
Scott Tobias is a freelance film and television writer from Chicago. He currently writes reviews for NPR and Variety, edits Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Musings blog, and contributes frequently to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vulture, and other publications.
Fábio Andrade is a film scholar and artist. He holds an MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University and a PhD in cinema studies from New York University.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, who has written on Cuban arts and history for many years, is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and teaches at NYU.
David Forgacs is Professor of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. His recent publications include a history of violence in modern Italy. His other contributions for the Criterion Collection include a filmed interview on Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De...
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He has written on film for the New York Review of Books, the Threepenny Review, and other journals. His most recent book is Moral Imagination, a collection of essays.
Jessica Barrow Dawson is a New York City–based arts reporter, critic, and professor. She is currently at work on a memoir.
Sheila O’Malley writes weekly film reviews for RogerEbert.com, and has also written for Liberties Journal, Film Comment, and the New York Times, among other outlets. In 2025, she wrote The Art and Making of “Frankenstein,” the official companion book to...
Girish Shambu teaches at Canisius College, in Buffalo, New York, and writes about film culture. He is the author of The New Cinephilia and the editor of Film Quarterly’s online column Quorum.