Marshall Shaffer
School
Wake Forest University
Expertise
Film Festivals, Independent Cinema, Documentaries
- Marshall is a member of the Critics Choice Association, where he serves on the documentary awards' nominating committee.
- He is also a member of the New York Film Critics Online.
- He has interviewed such generational talents as Emma Stone, Robert Pattinson, Pedro Almodóvar, and Park Chan-wook.
Experience
Marshall has been writing about movies online for over 13 years and began professionally freelancing in 2015. He joined /Film as a freelance contributor in 2017 to help expand the site's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, he's offered insights and reviews out of festivals like Tribeca and New York as well as contributed interviews, reporting, and other articles. In his work for the site as well as across the internet, Marshall is always looking to get to the heart of any story by also placing it within a larger cultural context. His writing can also be frequently found on Slant, The Playlist, Crooked Marquee, and Decider.
Education
Marshall graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University with a bachelor's degree in communication and sociology.
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Stories By Marshall Shaffer
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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney are the highlights of the frisky, fun rom-com Anyone But You. Read our review of the new movie right here.
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The Boys in the Boat is ultimately a standard-issue sports movie, but it's better than some of George Clooney's other directorial efforts. Here's our review.
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Ava DuVernay's Origin never quite finesses that sliding scale between the personal and the political so brilliantly expressed in Isabel Wilkerson's work.
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Scrapper is a dazzling directorial debut, a different kind of father-daughterr story, and is just the kind of scrappy triumph its title indicates.
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Nothing takes flight here.
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Time for another miniseries that should've been a movie.
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Director Noah Baumbach's films are fraught with complex emotions. However, his explorations of intergenerational relationships sometimes miss the mark.
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On the occasion of Timothée Chalamet's latest big-screen turn in Bones and All, we take a look at a dozen of his most memorable movie roles.
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Ahead of A24's upcoming dramatic thriller release, "The Eternal Daughter," we explore and rank Tilda Swinton's most notable performances in film history.
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Cate Blanchett's resolute strength, undeniable intelligence, and flair for the theatrical make each of her best performances a distinct and special experience.
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He's won five Oscars over the past decade, so we're sizing up the "Bardo" filmmaker's body of work as we rank all eight Alejandro G. Iñárritu movies.
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If you loved watching Netflix's "Blonde" and want more Marilyn Monroe and brutal takedowns on Hollywood, fame, and fortune, here are some must-see films.
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Most giant film festivals are all about the present — and future — of cinema by their very nature.
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Master Gardener asks its audience to contemplate the limits of forgiveness.
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The Banshees of Inisherin captures both the elemental resonance of folklore with the sophisticated weightiness of classic stage drama.
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Brendan Fraser is easily the best part of The Whale.
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A sincere, swooning romance (with cannibalism).
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Bardo is an incoherent grab-bag of visual metaphors delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
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TÁR is a Cate Blanchett masterclass.
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After two decades on the big screen, Kristen Stewart remains impossible to pin down, but as these performances prove, her talent is undeniable.
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The Coen Bros. filmography contains far fewer misses than it does hits. Ranking all 19 of them wasn't easy (but we managed).
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2021 was a banner year for Edgar Wright, making now the perfect time to rank all of his movies — including Last Night in Soho.
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With Denis Villeneuve's latest blockbuster on the way, there's no better time to rank every single one of his movies — including Dune.
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Check out our review of the Pedro Almodóvar film that earned Best Actress for Penélope Cruz at the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
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Prestige period filmmaking rarely sizzles like The Last Duel. Find out why Ridley Scott's latest is worth watching in our review from the Venice Film Festival.
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Darren Aranofsky has made good movies and bad movies, but he has never made an uninteresting one. Here are all of his films, ranked worst to best.