Bio

Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic. She reviews weekly film releases for the Tribune News Service, freelances for the Los Angeles Times and Variety, and frequently appears on KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand, and LAist’s FilmWeek with Larry Mantle. She is the Vice President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

Her writing has been published in GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vulture, The Wrap, MEL Magazine, The Playlist, Nerdist, Slate, Certified Forgotten, The Hairpin, indieWIRE, Women and Hollywood, and Town & Country, and guests on various film podcasts. She co-hosted the One Heat Minute Productions podcast Miami Nice, and guest-hosted the Maximum Fun podcast Switchblade Sisters. She’s covered international film festivals as a critic and journalist, and has moderated Q&As with filmmakers and actors in Los Angeles since 2012.

Katie is an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, teaching the class “Practicum in Film and Television Criticism,” also taught the Film Studies class “Practices of Writing About Film,” at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. In 2023, she was a fellow at the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and in 2025 and 2026 returned to NCI as the film faculty mentor.

Katie earned her B.A. in Film Studies from Wesleyan University, and her M.A. in Critical Studies from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she also worked as an associate programmer of screenings and special events, and dropped out of a PhD program at the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. Her first job in the industry was in the publicity department at Lionsgate Films, and she produced the short film “The Better Half,” which premiered in competition at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.

She is a native Virgin Islander, born and raised on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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