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Back in Cannes, I spoke to Alain Guiraudie about his latest MISERICORDIA — for my money, the best of the fest. I reckon the film will travel far and wide but should you desire a little taste, that (spoiler-free) convo is now posted on Notebook mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Huge delight to have written the liners for the Criterion Collection 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! criterion.com/current/posts/…

New critic’s pick just dropped for the ugly-beautiful, luridly macabre Roman porno entry LOVE HOTEL, which starts its theatrical run tomorrow Metrograph nytimes.com/2025/04/03/mov…

Val Kilmer “could complicate the entire meaning of a film with a strut and a glimpse, and convey savagely weird and wonderful humanity in a brief encounter,” Beatrice Loayza writes. “No gesture or look was too little.” theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Wrote about Val for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

OUT NOW: ISSUE 358! Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on John Berger’s “Hold Everything Dear,” Beatrice Loayza on Suzanne Valadon Centre Pompidou, Melissa E Anderson on Richard Beymer’s 1973 film “The Innerview,” & Paul Chan on “Lower than the Angels” by Diarmaid MacCulloch 4columns.org

“Her nude portraits upend a fetishistic mode: her women are engaged in their self-care routines, their bodies relaxed, unstylized, their expressions conveying something between boredom, fatigue, and arousal.”—Beatrice Loayza on Suzanne Valadon Centre Pompidou 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…

Profiled Dea Kulumbegashvili for the The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/04/24/mov…

“There’s an artifice, a forced delicacy, to Chew-Bose’s [film] that extends most egregiously to the dialogue, a collection of aphorisms…meant to telegraph each woman’s wisdom and acuity.” Beatrice Loayza on BONJOUR TRISTESSE, in this week’s 4Columns. 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…

Reviewed nu-Bonjour Tristesse for 4Columns 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…

New critic’s pick🤪 nytimes.com/2025/05/15/mov…

For our eighth Podcast from #Cannes2025, Abby Sun (Abby Sun), Beatrice Loayza (Beatrice Loayza), and Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss Joachim Trier’s SENTIMENTAL VALUE, Carla Simón’s ROMERÍA, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

Wrote about the new films by Ari Aster, Richard Linklater and Christian Petzold as part of my Film Comment Magazine Cannes dispatch, which is now available online: filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-20…

Andddd here are my MOIRÉE Cannes ratings🙂 moir.ee/critics/beatri…

"Adam Bessa’s brooding performance conveys devastating inner struggles without appearing clichéd." - Beatrice Loayza (The New York Times) A 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema selection, GHOST TRAIL opens tomorrow at FLC! Read the review: nytimes.com/2025/05/29/mov… 🎟️: filmlinc.org/ghost

This one’s a banger. Won’t be in NY for this but for those of you who are…its also playing at FLC end of June👀

“The film is supposed to smell like New York. And it’s not perfume.” Beatrice Loayza (Beatrice Loayza) interviews Spike Lee about his latest HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, which just premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. filmcomment.com/blog/interview…

a heartfelt note re: Pierre Creton. Discovering his work has been one of the most exciting and rewarding movie related things I’ve done in the last few years. Really hope people come see his films at BAM, starting this Friday June 20.