The Criterion Collection
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a Los Angeles–based film critic and journalist. Aguilar’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and IndieWire, among others. He is a member of...
Yolanda Machado is a Los Angeles–based first-generation Peruvian Mexican American entertainment writer, editor, and critic. She is a digital editor for Entertainment Weekly. Before her time at EW, she was a film critic for the Wrap, and she has also...
Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, which was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine,...
F. Ron Miller is a freelance graphic designer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Chris Vognar is a culture journalist. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He is a former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University.
Julian Kimble has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, GQ, the Ringer, and other publications.
Jordan Cronk is a film critic and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight & Sound, and other publications. He is...
Justin Chang is a film critic at the New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air. He won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work at the Los Angeles Times.
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...
Roxane Gay is a writer of books, essays, short stories, comic books, graphic novels, film, and television. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, and that’s something she never thought she would say.