About

Raquel Stecher is a film historian and critic. She’s a writer for Turner Classic Movies and DVD Netflix and has also contributed articles to The Library of Congress, The Dark Pages, Film Detective and Cine Suffragette. In 2007 she started the classic film blog Out of the Past and in 2018 branched out with Quelle Movies, a website devoted to new releases. She is a certified critic for Rotten Tomatoes and Cherry Picks and a member of the Online Association of Female Film Critics. As press, Raquel has covered a variety of film festivals including:

TCMFF
TIFF,
Slamdance
Sundance
SXSW
AFI Fest
Woodstock
Double Exposure
Nashville Film Festival
and others

She’s a frequent guest on movie podcasts, hosts her own YouTube channel and in her free time tweets about all things film on her Twitter account @RaquelStecher.