Michael Atkinson

Michael Atkinson (born October 19, 1962) is an American writer, poet and film critic. His debut novel is Hemingway Deadlights, and he has written widely on film and culture, in Sight & Sound, The Village Voice, The Guardian, Film Comment, The Believer, In These Times, The Criterion Collection, Rolling Stone, The Progressive, Spin, Maxim, The Boston Phoenix, Details, Moving Image Source, IFC.com, TCM.com, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, The Stranger, The American Prospect, Baltimore City Paper, Modern Painters, and other publications. In 2026, he published the essay collection This Is How You Fight the Battle for Movies: Diatribes, Hosannas and Wild Talk on the Semi-Lost Craft of Cinephilia, 2001-2026.