Lex Briscuso - SlashFilm

Location

New York, NY

School

Marymount Manhattan College

Expertise

Found Footage, Body Horror, Harmony Korine

Lex is a lover of film festivals and regularly covers the likes of Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Sundance, and SXSW, where her criticism has been the first word on several major feature films.
She has introduced and hosted Q&As for film premieres in New York City, including "Skinamarink," "Sasquatch Sunset," "Red Rooms," "Sometimes I Think About Dying," "The Outwaters," and "Irreversible: Straight Cut," at incredible independent theaters like IFC Center, Alamo Drafthouse, and Angelika Film Center.
She covered film and television at IGN.

Experience

Lex has been living adjacent to film and television her entire life. She's been acting since she was five years old, but a few years after graduating college, she got her foot in the door of digital media. She has been writing about entertainment for nearly seven years, with her first industry job coming in 2018 at Life & Style and In Touch Weekly. After writing celebrity news for three years, Lex transitioned into the beat that has defined her and given her the most joy: film and television. She started writing freelance film criticism in early 2021 and worked for the /Film news desk until 2023. In the fall of 2021, she started working as a social media coordinator at Epic Pictures Group. She is now a staff critic at CBR and the executive editor of the new film criticism site The Film Maven, founded by former The Wrap film editor Kristen Lopez. Excitedly. She rejoined /Film on the features desk in 2025. You can find her bylines and criticism both online and in print at Vulture, The Guardian, Film School Rejects, Inverse, The Playlist, i-D, Fangoria, Paste Magazine, Roger Ebert, WeLoveCinema, The Wrap, Mashable, Shudder's The Bite, and Little White Lies. Lex is also a published poet and fiction writer, with her first chapbook of poetry titled "Men I Invented During a Fever Dream," published in January 2024.

Education

Lex graduated on the dean's list with bachelor's degrees from Marymount Manhattan College, where she double-majored in acting and playwriting. Within that framework of study, she immersed herself in acting for film and television classes as well as screenwriting.

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