Career
She has worked for The New York Times for over ten years, starting as a fashion critic then spending the next five years reviewing television In 2011, she began writing for the Big City column. She has also written for Time magazine.
Some of Bellafante"s writing has been criticized for its treatment of gender issues.
Her 2011 review in The New York Times of the television series Game of Thrones was criticized as sexist for suggesting that only sexual content might motivate women to watch a complex fantasy story.