Critics Academy

College-Age Critics Wanted (Again): Indiewire Could Send You to Cover the Locarno Film Festival

Our Locarno Critics Academy, done in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is back for 2013.

Attention College-Age Film Critics: Indiewire, Locarno Film Festival and Film Society of Lincoln Center Could Send You to Switzerland (Again)

This summer, we're again partnering with the Locarno Film Festival, the Swiss Association of Film Journalists and the Film Society of Lincoln Center to organize a workshop for promising critics from around the world. We're opening the call for applications today.

Olivier Assayas on the Difference Between Film Writing and Film Criticism

The journalist turned director shared some thoughts on the world of movie culture with the Critics Academy.

Missives From the Substitute World

A member of our Critics Academy gets to "the core of the cinema" found in a trio of NYFF titles.

Silence, Golden, in Black and White: 'Tabu,' Gomes, and Cage

On the magic and music of nothingness in a remarkable New York FIlm Festival selection.

(After the) Disaster Films: 'Life of Pi' and 'Flight'

The New York Film Festival opened with a shipwreck and closed with a plane crash. Here, a member of the Critics Academy considers the films in tandem.

Nothing Surfaces: Cristian Mungiu's 'Beyond the Hills'

A Critics Academy investigation of a "perilous but rewarding film."

A Critics Academy Conversation: New York Film Festival Wrap-Up

Olivier Assayas Returns to His Summer of Marx

Olivier Assayas' revolutionary cinema -- in two films about revolutionaries.