The Criterion Collection
Gene Seymour worked for eighteen years as a film critic and jazz reviewer for Newsday in New York. He has contributed articles on politics, culture, science fiction, and (even) baseball to such publications as the New Republic, the Baffler, the...
Larissa Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn. She is the author of Fantasian, a novella, and the essay collection Pop Song.
Barry Jenkins is a film director and screenwriter. He directed and cowrote the film Moonlight, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. In 2018, he wrote and directed a film adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale...
Elena Lazic is a French freelance film writer based in London, and the founder and editor of the online film magazine Animus. She has written for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, MUBI’s Notebook, the Guardian, and Cahiers du cinéma,...
Laura Kern is a writer, editor, and horror programmer based in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Film Comment, and Rolling Stone.
Sean Gilman is a film critic based in Tacoma, Washington. He has written extensively on East Asian film for MUBI’s Notebook, In Review Online, and his own site, the Chinese Cinema.
Ryan Gilbey has written for the Guardian since 2002. His book on queer cinema, It Used to Be Witches, will be published in 2025.
Robert Daniels is associate editor at RogerEbert.com and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Reverse Shot, and Screen Daily. He lives in Chicago.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the New York Times best-selling author of the critically acclaimed speculative novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Signal to Noise, Certain Dark Things, and The Beautiful Ones; the crime novel Untamed Shore, and the noir...