Justin Chang
@justincchang.bsky.social
Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
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Best Music Score, Winner: Kangding Ray, SIRĀT
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Best Music Score, Winner: Kangding Ray, SIRĀT
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Best Music Score: Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, SINNERS
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Best Music Score: Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, SINNERS
Happy LAFCA Voting Day, aka One Ballot After Another.
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy LAFCA Voting Day, aka One Ballot After Another.
Now more than ever, etc. Thrilled and proud to unveil, with the great @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social, our lists of the best films of 2025: www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
The Best Films of 2025
Our critics rank their favorite movies of the year.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Now more than ever, etc. Thrilled and proud to unveil, with the great @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social, our lists of the best films of 2025: www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
Tunnel visions: TRAIN DREAMS, reviewed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Tunnel visions: TRAIN DREAMS, reviewed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
“What were any of us doing at that age that was comparably heroic or meaningful? What are we doing now?” The great @timgrierson.bsky.social on one of the year’s great films, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. Opens Nov. 28 in L.A.: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: 'My Undesirable Friends' puts us front row as a real-life Russian TV channel unravels
Filmmaker Julia Loktev was in Moscow following her journalist friends as Russian forces invaded Ukraine. She captured a changing media climate for reporters.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“What were any of us doing at that age that was comparably heroic or meaningful? What are we doing now?” The great @timgrierson.bsky.social on one of the year’s great films, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. Opens Nov. 28 in L.A.: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Chloé Zhao's HAMNET, reviewed. Bring tissues; wet streams may come. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn?
In Chloé Zhao’s film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, the death of a child gives rise to the creation of a literary masterpiece.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chloé Zhao's HAMNET, reviewed. Bring tissues; wet streams may come. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Damn, how did I miss “aBaumination”?
On stage, the origin stories for Dorothy’s travelling companions play out with “a breezy behind-the-scenes cleverness,” @justincchang.bsky.social writes. “On screen, and on full display, it’s close to an abomination.” Read his review of “Wicked: For Good.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/a8Ha70
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Damn, how did I miss “aBaumination”?
Baum's away. The remarkably terrible WICKED: FOR GOOD, reviewed: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking.
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Baum's away. The remarkably terrible WICKED: FOR GOOD, reviewed: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Ghosts of girlhoods past: on the haunting, labyrinthine mysteries of Mascha Schilinski's SOUND OF FALLING, one of 2025's great films. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling”
Mascha Schilinski’s dark, century-spanning ensemble drama sees four generations of women take up spectral residence in a German farmhouse.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Ghosts of girlhoods past: on the haunting, labyrinthine mysteries of Mascha Schilinski's SOUND OF FALLING, one of 2025's great films. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death
In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Ordinary Papal
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Ordinary Papal
Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Bad Show-Biz Dads of “Sentimental Value” and “Jay Kelly”
In new films from Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach, success in filmmaking proves depressingly incompatible with success in fatherhood.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
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November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
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'Stein of the times? On the wonders, blunders, and blunderbusses of Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, a movie I liked quite a bit, even if it is, too fittingly, its own technologically compromised creature: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a Vast Vision Gets Netflixed Down to Size
The latest reanimation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, is a labyrinthine tour of a filmmaker’s career-long obsessions.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
'Stein of the times? On the wonders, blunders, and blunderbusses of Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, a movie I liked quite a bit, even if it is, too fittingly, its own technologically compromised creature: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A truly iconic reaction from Kaufman
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A truly iconic reaction from Kaufman
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Our 2026 Career Achievement Award recipient is Philip Kaufman
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Our 2026 Career Achievement Award recipient is Philip Kaufman
Hive minds and galaxy brains: on the transfixing psychological duet of Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, in Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Emma Stone’s Apocalyptic Showdown Blooms in “Bugonia”
In Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, ripe with eco-paranoia, the actress and Jesse Plemons come to physical and psychological blows.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hive minds and galaxy brains: on the transfixing psychological duet of Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, in Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...