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Mark Asch

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.

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

HEEEEEEEERE’S SATAN!

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 | Published Mar 21, 2024

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

IRISH GOODBYE

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

Mark Asch | Published Jan 20, 2024

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

GONE FISHIN’

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

Mark Asch | Published Dec 13, 2023

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

HEART FAILURE

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

Mark Asch | Published Oct 25, 2023

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