Mark Asch

Freelance Journalist

Mark Asch is a film critic based in Brooklyn, New York, and formerly film editor of The L Magazine and Brooklyn Magazine as well as a sessional lecturer in the English Department of Háskóli Íslands, the University of Iceland. The author of Close-Ups: New York Movies, he has written for Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Reverse Shot, the Criterion Collection's Current, Little White Lies, Inside Hook, Animus, and other fine publications.

David Dastmalchian screams in a still from ‘Late Night with the Devil’

HEEEEEEEERE’S SATAN!

’70s Horror Buffs, This Haunted Talk-Show Movie Is for You

A golden age of American horror meets the silver age of American TV in the talk-show spookfest “Late Night with the Devil.”

Mark Asch

Ruth Wilson holds an axe and peers through a hole in the wall in a still from ‘The Woman in the Wall’

IRISH GOODBYE

Is ‘The Woman in the Wall’ Your Next Mystery Obsession?

Part gothic thriller, part hot-button procedural, this British limited series starring Ruth Wilson excels at neither.

Mark Asch

Tommy Lee Jones as Ray, Toby Wallace as Charlie, Jenna Ortega as Mabel and Ben Foster as Tom pose on a boat in a still from ‘Finestkind’

GONE FISHIN’

Jenna Ortega Fans Have Their Own ‘Moby-Dick’ at Last

“L.A. Confidential” director Brian Helgeland drags in an old drama he once pitched to Heath Ledger.

Mark Asch

A photo including Jeremy Allen White and Jessie Buckley in the film Fingernails on Apple TV+

HEART FAILURE

Hooray—Another Sappy, Watered-Down Sci-Fi Satire!

Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed run the Love Institute in this overly sentimental ripoff of “The Lobster.”

Mark Asch