About

Zachary Lee (he/him) is from Chicago’s North Side (he feels the need to clarify he’s actually from the city). He is a freelance culture writer who often writes about media, faith, technology, and the environment. His words can be found at RogerEbert.com, Letterboxd, IndieWire, Interview Magazine, TheWrap, Fangoria, Inverse, The Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, JoySauce, Time Out Chicago, Sojourners, National Catholic Reporter, The AMP, Under the Radar, and Think Christian.He is a recipient of the 2023 Chicago Film Critics Association & Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Grant and is a 2023 Gold House Journalism Futures Accelerator Participant. He has been press-accredited and covered the Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, SXSW, Fantastic Fest, and Chicago International Film Festivals. He has also moderated and spoken at panels for Sundance and TIFF. His work has won awards from the Religious News Association and Evangelical Press Association.With his spare time, Zachary happily logs films on Letterboxd and often writes down the funny and/or profound quotations the people around him say (that they’ve probably forgotten about).His full writing portfolio can be found here.Read his top 10 films of 2025 here.