Beatrice Loayza

Beatrice Loayza is a critic based in New York and Paris. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the Criterion Collection, and a contributing editor for Film Comment.

‘The Odyssey’: The Feelgood Film of the Year

Beatrice Loayzaartreview.com22 July 2026

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation goes for modern psychology over textual ‘fidelity’, eschewing not just the silliness of toga-clad deities perched in the heavens, says Beatrice Loayza, but the itchiness of dogmatic truths

The Limits of Spielbergian Humanism

Beatrice Loayzaartreview.com25 June 2026

Watching ‘Disclosure Day’, Beatrice Loayza wonders if Hollywood’s great empath is losing his way

Katja Raganelli: How to Talk to Women

Beatrice Loayzaartreview.com14 February 2025

In intimate interviews with fellow female directors working in the European and US arthouse film industry of the 1970s and ‘80s, a revisionist history of cinema comes to light

Katja Raganelli and Agnès Varda photographed by Konrad Wickler, 1975