Beatrice Loayza
@bealoayza.bsky.social
Film critic // New York Times, Criterion, Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, etc.
New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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.
www.thenation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Reposted by Beatrice Loayza
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.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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...
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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...
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Wrote about nunsploitation— the gender politics and history of the wily subgenre— for Criterion ⭐️ www.criterion.com/current/post...
Reposted by Beatrice Loayza
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/m...
‘Rosa la Rose: Fille Publique’ Review: Lady Liberty of the Streets
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/m...
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-...
@filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy
Cannes dispatch, which is now available online:
www.filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-...
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
www.filmcomment.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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-...
@filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy
Cannes dispatch, which is now available online:
www.filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-...
May 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
May 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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/...
Rushes Extra | The Battle of the Alamo
Reporting from the picket lines of the New York cinema workers strike at Alamo Drafthouse.
mubi.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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/...
Wrote about Val Kilmer for the Atlantic. Here’s a gift article for your reading pleasure www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
March 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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😌
March 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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-...
February 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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4columns.org/loayza-beatr...
February 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
4columns.org/loayza-beatr...
4columns.org/loayza-beatr...
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
January 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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
Worth noting the B&N Criterion
sale (till tomorrow!) applies to big boxsets, like the monumental CC40 collection — within which you’ll find a few new essays including one on NAKED by yours truly⚡️⚡️⚡️
sale (till tomorrow!) applies to big boxsets, like the monumental CC40 collection — within which you’ll find a few new essays including one on NAKED by yours truly⚡️⚡️⚡️
December 2, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Worth noting the B&N Criterion
sale (till tomorrow!) applies to big boxsets, like the monumental CC40 collection — within which you’ll find a few new essays including one on NAKED by yours truly⚡️⚡️⚡️
sale (till tomorrow!) applies to big boxsets, like the monumental CC40 collection — within which you’ll find a few new essays including one on NAKED by yours truly⚡️⚡️⚡️
Wrote 3k+ words on Catherine Breillat, her ideas on victimhood, & the accusations lodged against her by Caroline Ducey. CB is my favorite living director so it behooved me to seriously grapple with her vision & practices—what an honor to do it for NYRB www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
November 22, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Wrote 3k+ words on Catherine Breillat, her ideas on victimhood, & the accusations lodged against her by Caroline Ducey. CB is my favorite living director so it behooved me to seriously grapple with her vision & practices—what an honor to do it for NYRB www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...