Celia Mattison is a writer,
film critic,
and amateur scuba diver.
My work has appeared in BuzzFeed News, Vulture, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. I was recently named to the Lincoln Center Critics Academy for the 2024 New York Film Festival.
I am also the author of Deeper Into Movies, a monthly newsletter about trends in moviemaking. Subscribe here.
I was an Ann Friedman Fellow in 2022. I've been a film screener for the Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, and previously volunteered at the greatest movie theater in the world, the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis.
Selected Work
‘Interview with Oddity Director Damian Mc Carthy,” Moviemaker Magazine
“Why Criterion 24/7 Is the Only Way To Watch Movies,” Slate
“In Defense of the Single-Use Object,” Dirt
The Cinema of Body Euphoria,” AF Weekly
“Can You Learn a New Language from a ChatBot?,” The Daily Beast
“The Year of the Rabbit,” LitHub
“Towards the Afropastoral,” Bright Wall, Dark Room
“Draculas, Ranked,” Vulture
“An Interview with Jenny Odell,” BookPage
“This Halloween, Nothing Is Scarier Than an Aging Woman,” BuzzFeed News
“The Scream Gap,” The Audacity, unpaywalled here