Mark Asch

Mark Asch is a film critic in Brooklyn. He is a contributor to the Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker, Screen Slate, Mubi Notebook, Sight & Sound, and elsewhere. His book, Close-Ups: New York Movies, has an average rating of 3.8 stars (out of 5) on Goodreads.

All Articles From Mark Asch

Revisiting the Film That Launched Laura Dern's Bold, Prolific Career

Before all the Lynchian madness, Dern thrilled as a small-town naif in Joyce Chopra's "Smooth Talk"

Martin Scorsese’s Right: Big Tech Is Killing Cinema

Writing for Harper's, Scorsese filed his most incisive polemic to date against streaming's continued — and perhaps insurmountable — influence

Sixty Years Later, “Purple Noon” Is Still the Essential Summer Crime Thriller

The 1960 French adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" has everything you need