Justin Chang is a film critic at The New Yorker. He also reviews movies for NPR's Fresh Air. He won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for his writing at the Los Angeles Times, where he spent nearly eight years as a film critic. Before that, he was chief film critic at Variety. He has won three National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for film criticism from the Los Angeles Press Club. Justin serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and is a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee. He is the author of FilmCraft: Editing (2011), a book of interviews with 17 of the world's top film editors, and an adjunct professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.