Beatrice Loayza

Proud of this one!

Proud of this one!

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Marty Supreme Is a Love Letter to the Underdog Streetwise spirals into chaos centered on charismatic hustlers are director Josh Safdie’s signature.

Here I am on MARTY SUPREME for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2044...

Resurrector: Any Given Sunday - Believer Magazine Sports fandom seizes upon our religious instincts, and demands a cocktail of faith and devotion. The typical Hollywood football movie—think Remember the Titans (2000) or Rudy (1993)—tends to bring out...

“Sports fandom seizes upon our religious instincts, and demands a cocktail of faith and devotion.”

—from @bealoayza.bsky.social’s Resurrector column on Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday

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Other great films: Souleymane’s Story, Who by Fire, It Was Just An Accident, Sinners, Collective Monologue, The Empire… on another day they might’ve been up there but my whims (and frankly some embarrassing memory lapses) had other plans.

Here she is… my @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy EOY list…

My favorite Berlinale film—tried to drum up enthusiasm in my write-up here, but crickets…

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A Visceral Look at the Impossible Task of Mothering Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is at once harrowing and mesmerizing.

New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

BEST DIRECTOR Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident Kelly Reichardt, The Mastermind Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another Oliver Laxe, Sirāt BEST BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace Carson Lund, Eephus Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch Akinola Davies, Jr., My Father’s Shadow Harris Dickinson, Urchin

A pleasure to serve on this year’s Gotham Awards nominating committee for Best Director and Best Breakthrough Director, alongside excellent colleagues @bealoayza.bsky.social, @davidehrlich.bsky.social, @bmluse.bsky.social and @ldbahr.bsky.social. Really proud of both these rangy nomination fields.

Tonight!! Talking all things NYFF with a murderer’s row of critics

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Wrote about The Smashing Machine (or How the Rock Learned to Lose) for 4Columns 4columns.org/loayza-beatr...

Wrote about The Smashing Machine (or How the Rock Learned to Lose) for 4Columns 4columns.org/loayza-beatr...

Wrote about nunsploitation— the gender politics and history of the wily subgenre— for Criterion ⭐️ www.criterion.com/current/post...

‘Rosa la Rose: Fille Publique’ Review: Lady Liberty of the Streets

Thanks to @bealoayza.bsky.social and her stellar New York Times review of Rosa la rose - our limited edition of which is shipping now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/m...

Cannes 2025: Out of Breath Running on empty: Ari Aster‘s Eddington, Christian Petzold‘s Mirrors No. 3, and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague fail to be more than mere reflections of their grander ambitions and inspirations

Wrote about the new films by Ari Aster, Richard Linklater and Christian Petzold as part of my
@filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy
Cannes dispatch, which is now available online:

www.filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-...

New critic’s pick🤪

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/m...

Reviewed nu-Bonjour Tristesse for 4C

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Profiled Dea Kulumbegashvili for the NYT

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/m...

Rushes Extra | The Battle of the Alamo Reporting from the picket lines of the New York cinema workers strike at Alamo Drafthouse.

For the past two months, I've been speaking to striking Alamo Drafthouse workers in New York about their grievances with the company and battling for a new contract. This is the result. For Mubi Notebook. Check it out. mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Thanks Marya!!🙏🏼

Wrote about Val Kilmer for the Atlantic. Here’s a gift article for your reading pleasure www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Huge delight to have written the liners for the @criterion.bsky.social release of Alan Rudolph's CHOOSE ME. I'm particularly proud of this one, perhaps because the film hits too close to home. Heterosexuality is masochism and we like it! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Miraculously found my way onto French television via France 24’s Perspective program. Spewed some hot Oscar goss😌

Bye Berlin. Saw the movies, did the thing, thought about the German historical memory complex: www.nytimes.com/by/beatrice-...

Feeling privileged to have been given the space and (extra) time to write about David Lynch for 4_columns. Here I am on him and his women...

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Thanks to my readers + editors for making this freelance writer thing work another year. It's a tough gig but I'm lucky enough to do it full-time in relative comfort and write about things I genuinely love. Here are some selected longer form pieces of mine, links on my site beatriceloayza.com