Justin Chang
Film Critic at Fresh Air
Film Critic at The New Yorker
Film Critic, @NewYorker and @nprfreshair | 2024 @PulitzerPrizes Winner, Criticism | Chair, @NatSocFilmCrix | Secretary, @LAFilmCritics | Programmer, @TheNYFF
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1 week ago |
link.newyorker.com | Justin Chang |Richard Brody |Amanda Petrusich |Adam Gopnik
What our writers think about the new film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal. Plus: a new documentary about video stores. View in browser | “Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Justin Chang
The work of the Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song is modest in scope and intimate in feel, but listen closely to her words—to say nothing of her silences—and you will hear whispers of a grand, even cosmic, ambition. “Past Lives,” her début feature, from 2023, was a small-scaled yet breathtakingly expansive tale of cultural and romantic confusion.
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3 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Justin Chang
The writer and director Mike Flanagan has become a well-regarded name in modern horror, known for his TV versions of The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher. He's also made a couple of Stephen King adaptations, including the films Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep, and he's currently working on a new series version of Carrie.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Justin Chang
When “It Was Just an Accident,” a new movie from the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, on Saturday, Panahi responded in a way that I’ve never seen from a winning filmmaker. As the audience inside the Grand Théâtre Lumière erupted in applause and leaped to their feet, Panahi, in sunglasses, remained in his seat and crowed his elation to the skies.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Justin Chang
When the competition program of the seventy-eighth Cannes Film Festival was announced several weeks ago, I wasn’t alone in predicting that the Iranian director Jafar Panahi would win the Palme d’Or, the event’s highest honor, for his new film, “It Was Just an Accident.” When I saw the film in Cannes last week, I felt more certain than ever.
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Pascal’s triangle: on MATERIALISTS, the latest from Celine Song, in theatres this Friday. https://t.co/Qu9iCI63qR
RT @tnyfrontrow: I read J. Hoberman's new book, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde (@VersoBooks) in a state of trancelike en…
I wrote about the stunning career triumph of Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT and other films of political resistance and reckoning at Cannes 2025, with notes on PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK and MY FATHER'S SHADOW. https://t.co/0bGk00SaM2