Beatrice Loayza

Beatrice Loayza is a critic and film historian based in Brooklyn. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, the Criterion Collection, 4Columns, Film Comment, The Nation, and other publications. (February 2026)

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Timekeepers

In The Secret Agent, his sad, riotous new feature, the Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho at once archives a vanished world and mythologizes it.

February 22, 2026

‘The Look of Shame’

The French director Catherine Breillat has spent her career insisting on women’s agency and reclaiming taboo desires—sometimes with troubling implications.

November 21, 2024

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