For twenty years, Reverse Shot, a journal for film criticism and the house publication of New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, has been a home for movie lovers to find incisive, intelligent writings from a diverse group of the best critics working today.
To celebrate the publication's run, MoMI has published this special anniversary anthology, which collects central pieces from the journal’s beginnings up through the latest releases. Broken into four chronological movements, this volume captures not only the films and filmmakers that Reverse Shot’s writers have championed and wrestled over but also tells a story of cinema’s progress and change over the first two decades of the 21st century.
More than just for the many longtime readers of Reverse Shot, this collection is an essential reference for the past, present, and future of the moving image and a gift for anyone who cares about films and serious writings about them.
“This New York-based publication has remained not only a beacon for quality film writing but also, in so many cases, the domain for the internet’s best piece on a given film. ... Digging into the earliest writings here affirms a site quickly setting an Olympian standard for online movie analysis, pole-vaulting even over many esteemed print publications with less space to play with on the page ... Any one essay gives you a taste of the levels of insight routinely put to bear by its shifting stable of contributors, including Nick Pinkerton, Genevieve Yue, Eric Hynes and Devika Girish.” —Sight & Sound magazine, March 2024
Michael Koresky is a co–founder and editor of Reverse Shot and Editorial Director at Museum of the Moving Image; a contributor and advisory board member at The Criterion Collection and host of the ongoing Criterion Channel series Queersighted; and author of the books Films of Endearment and Terence Davies. Koresky has taught on film at NYU and The New School.
Jeff Reichert is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker and critic. He has directed four features and produced American Factory. His work has been awarded the Film Independent Spirit Award, Gotham Award, and Cinema Eye Honor. He is a co–founder and editor of Reverse Shot.