The Criterion Collection
Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens, New York, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Bookforum, Granta, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Herculine, is out now.
Mindy Seu is an artist and technologist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her performances and publications include Cyberfeminism Index (2023) and A Sexual History of the...
David Schwartz, an independent curator and writer, was chief curator at Museum of the Moving Image for more than thirty years, and has programmed for the Museum of Modern Art, Film Forum, Metrograph, and many other venues. He writes for...
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter and author whose books include The Cinema of Tsui Hark (2001), Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage (2010), and The Art of the Zombie Movie (2023). Her film writing includes articles about...
Vadim Rizov is the former director of editorial operations at Filmmaker magazine. His work has appeared in publications including Reverse Shot, Sight and Sound, Vanity Fair, and the Village Voice.
Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times...
Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times Opinion section and the cohost of the podcast Unclear and Present Danger. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Laura Lippman, named one of the one hundred essential crime writers of the past hundred years, has published a wide variety of novels and short stories in the genre, including PI fiction, noir, and cozies. In 2025, she was named...
Bernardo Rondeau is an independent programmer and writer based in Los Angeles. Previously, he served as senior director of film programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and curator of film programs at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London. Her criticism collection The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture is forthcoming from Columbia University Press later this year.