Beatrice Loayza

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 @nybooks nybooks.com/online/2024/11…

Thanks to @bealoayza and her stellar New York Times review of Rosa la rose - our limited edition of which is shipping now. nytimes.com/2025/07/10/mov…

The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

The love that seems to be going around for Eddington doesn’t infuriate me but ahem here’s me wagging my finger otherwise…from my @FilmComment Cannes write up: filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-20…

New incentive to buy Criterion premieres discs— they’ll now feature lil notes by critics like yours truly! Very pleased to have written this one👇🏼

Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza) reports from Bologna, Italy on this year’s edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, where distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air. filmcomment.com/blog/il-cinema…

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.

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

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👀

"Adam Bessa’s brooding performance conveys devastating inner struggles without appearing clichéd." - @bealoayza (@nytimes) 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

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

For our eighth Podcast from #Cannes2025, Abby Sun (@abbypsun), Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza), 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 @FilmComment Cannes dispatch, which is now available online: filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-20…

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

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

“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.” @bealoayza on BONJOUR TRISTESSE, in this week’s @4_columns. 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…

Profiled Dea Kulumbegashvili for the @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/04/24/mov…

“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.”—@bealoayza on Suzanne Valadon @CentrePompidou 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…

OUT NOW: ISSUE 358! Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on John Berger’s “Hold Everything Dear,” @bealoayza on Suzanne Valadon @CentrePompidou, @MelissEAnderson on Richard Beymer’s 1973 film “The Innerview,” & Paul Chan on “Lower than the Angels” by Diarmaid MacCulloch 4columns.org

Wrote about Val for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…