Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958)^[1] is an Americanfilm critic,filmmaker andauthor.

Brody grew up inRoslyn, New York.^[2] He is Jewish and has personally identified as an atheist.^[2][3] Brody attendedPrinceton University, receiving a BA in comparative literature in 1980.^[2] He first became interested in films after seeingJean-Luc Godard's seminalFrench New Wave filmBreathless during his freshman year at Princeton. In the early 1980s, after graduating from college, Brody briefly lived in Paris.^[4] He is the author of a biography of Godard. Brody has two children with his wife, Maja, who immigrated to the United States fromYugoslavia.^[2][5]

Before becoming a film critic, Brody worked as a researcher on documentaries and made one independent film,Liability Crisis, released in 1995.^[4][6] Since 1999 he has written forThe New Yorker, and in December 2014, he was made a Chevalier (Knight) in theOrdre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions in popularizing French cinema in America.^[7]

Brody participated in the2012Sight & Sound critics' poll,^[8] where he listed as his ten favorite films the following:

In the2022Sight & Sound critics' poll, half of the films selected remained the same:

• King Lear(US, 1987)
• Shoah(France, 1985)
• The Last Laugh(Germany, 1924)
• The Gold Rush (US, 1925)
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Japan, 1939)
• Citizen Kane (US, 1941)
• Playtime(France, 1967)
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium-France, 1975)
• Faces (US, 1968)
• Daughters of the Dust (US, 1991)

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