Marshall Shaffer is a New York-based freelance journalist whose writing appears regularly on Decider, Slant, Slashfilm, and The Playlist. He’s been writing about film since 2009 and has done so in a professional capacity since 2015. Whether it’s streaming recommendations, interviewing the director behind a new release, or scouting the next indie gem at a film festival, he’s always searching for what a movie means within a larger cultural context — or trying to find the next great voice who expands our idea of what culture can be.