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Kristy Puchko

Kristy Puchko

Kristy Puchko is a New York-based film critic whose work has appeared on Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Vulture, and Pajiba. Born in a small Pennsylvania town known for flooding (and being the filming location of 'Slap Shot'), Kristy showed a deep love of cinema from an early age. She earned her B.A. in Film Studies at Macaulay Honors College's Brooklyn branch. Then, she spent some time on Sesame Street (as an intern) before moving into post-production, editing music videos, commercials, and films. From there, Kristy branched out into blogging, and quickly realized her true passion was in writing about film in a way that engaged and challenged audiences. Since then, she's traveled the world on assignment, attended a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, and taught a film criticism course at FIT. But amid all her ventures, she's proud to call Pajiba.com her home, serving as the site's Chief Film Critic and Film Editor.

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Review: <i>WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Apr 1st, 2021
The rise and fall of WeWork could make for a compelling documentary, but the new Hulu feature isn’t it.
Review: <i>Cherry</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Cherry

Mar 11th, 2021
The Russo Brothers’ latest is a mess, a mishmash of visual and storytelling clichés, stranding a miscast Tom Holland in an embarrassing attempt at...
Review: <i>Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

Feb 25th, 2021
Apple TV+’s new Billie Eilish documentary offers extensive access, copious music, and even some thought-provoking material on fame and fandom.
Review: <i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Judas and the Black Messiah

Feb 11th, 2021
Shaka King’s dramatization of the murder of Fred Hampton is a rare historical drama that pulses with the urgency of now.
Review: <i>Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself

Jan 21st, 2021
Frank Oz’s Hulu documentary captures a Broadway performance of DelGaudio's one-man show, in a manner that preserves the production’s surprises...
Review: <i>Wonder Woman 1984</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Wonder Woman 1984

Dec 22nd, 2020
The hotly hyped sequel to Patty Jenkins’s superhero smash (streaming Christmas Day on HBO Max) is a well-intentioned muddle, overstuffed with...
Review: <i>Sound of Metal</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Sound of Metal

Dec 3rd, 2020
Darius Marder’s directorial debut is an intense character drama and unnervingly immersive viewing experience.
Review: <i>The Croods: A New Age</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: The Croods: A New Age

Nov 25th, 2020
The new follow-up to the delightful 2013 animated feature offers, sadly, nothing more than more of the same.
Review: <i>Freaky</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Freaky

Nov 12th, 2020
The comedy/horror mash-up from the director of ‘Happy Death Day’ boasts a deliciously clever premise – and squanders it.
Review: <i>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Oct 22nd, 2020
Sascha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to his 2006 megahit leans a bit too heavily on familiar shtick, but wisely adds a comic secret weapon.
Review: <i>Ava</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Ava

Sep 25th, 2020
Tate Taylor’s latest low-energy thriller has a killer cast and workable premise, yet does absolutely nothing right.
Review: <i>I'm Thinking of Ending Things</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Sep 3rd, 2020
Charlie Kaufman’s adaptation of Iain Reid's novel is a mind-bending and melancholic experience.
Review: <i>Tesla</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Tesla

Aug 20th, 2020
How can we know Nikola Tesla? The 19th-century Serbian-American inventor was a formative figure in the advances of electricity – but he was not a...
Review: <i>Radioactive</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: Radioactive

Jul 23rd, 2020
The life of Marie Curie is one of incredible accomplishment, adversity, and loss. Her legacy is likewise complicated, as her discoveries of...
Review: <i>The Sunlit Night</i>
Kristy Puchko

Review: The Sunlit Night

Jul 16th, 2020
With theatrical releases hitting major obstacles, this summer has brought some truly incredible movies to digital/streaming/VOD.  Sadly, The...
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