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A Brilliant Actor and Even Better Person: Isiah Whitlock Jr. (1954-2025)
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Cute Chaos: Penny Lane on “Happy And You Know It”
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40 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2026
Brian Tallerico
40 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2026
Brian Tallerico
Happy New Year 2026 from Chaz Ebert and Everyone at RogerEbert.com
Chaz Ebert
Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters
Godfrey Cheshire
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Chaz Ebert
Ecstasy and Agony: Mona Fastvold on “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Isaac Feldberg
How Come They Don’t Fly Away?: James Ransone (1979-2025)
Kaiya Shunyata
With “Metroid Prime 4,” Nintendo’s Frankenstein is Beyond Saving
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Emily in Paris Season 5, but It’s Rome (Where She Wants To)
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The Great Performances of 2025
The Editors
A Multifaceted Conversation About Faith: Rian Johnson on “Wake Up Dead Man”
Nell Minow
“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Brian Tallerico
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Brian Tallerico
“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
Brian Tallerico
HBO’s “Heated Rivalry” is the Sexiest and Most Significant Queer Show of the Year
Kaiya Shunyata
Cinema Is My Church: Rian Johnson on “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”
Chase Hutchinson
“Call of Duty: Black Ops 7” Signals a Franchise in Stasis
Brian Tallerico
Welcome to the Family Captures Chaos & Coolness of One of Hollywood’s Most Memorable Franchises
Brian Tallerico
Netflix’s “The Abandons” Leaves Its Capable Stars Behind in a Weak, Weary Western
Clint Worthington
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Tamara Kotevska on “The Tale of Silyan”
Marya E. Gates
Palm Springs Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup
The Editors
Short Films in Focus: Off the Face of the Earth (with Michael Pantozzi)
Collin Souter
Starz Returns to Form With Brutal and Brilliant Spin-Off “Spartacus: House of Ashur”
Kaiya Shunyata
“Stranger Things” Sets Up Its Endgame with Quartet of New Episodes
Brian Tallerico
Actors Superbly Channel Siskel and Ebert Onstage in Chicago
Matt Fagerholm
No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura on “The Secret Agent”
Robert Daniels
“Dispatch” is a Superhero Drama Equally Mighty and Emotional
George Yang
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025)
Clint Worthington
Wong Kar-wai’s Gorgeous, Captivating “Blossoms Shanghai” Arrives on the Criterion Channel
Peter Sobczynski
Felt More than Heard: Nathan Johnson on Composing his Third “Knives Out” Movie, “Wake Up Dead Man”
Nell Minow
Ted Danson Goes Back to School in the Charming Second Season of Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside”
Richard Roeper
I’m Just An Actor: Rebuilding Roles with Josh O’Connor
Zachary Lee
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Katie Rife
It’s Epic to Live a Normal Life: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on “Train Dreams”
Zachary Lee
Right Now, It’s Important: An Ode to S.E. Hinton’s Teenagers
Alisha Mughal
From Chicago to the World: On the 50th Anniversary of Siskel & Ebert
Richard Roeper
A Source of Inspiration: Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value”
Isaac Feldberg
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Mamoru Oshii on “Angel’s Egg”
Katie Rife
“Landman” Might Be the Dumbest Fracking Show on TV
Clint Worthington
It’s Important for a Film to Wake an Audience Up: Ira Sachs on “Peter Hujar’s Day”
Nell Minow
Netflix’s “Last Samurai Standing” is One of the Best Action Shows of the Year
Rendy Jones
No Other Land: Surviving a Crushing Machine
Omer M. Mozaffar
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow” Announced as Winner of the 2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award
The Editors
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Sato and Sato,” “Blue Boy Trial,” “Poca Pon,” “Blonde”
Katie Rife
A Duo Unlike Any Other: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of “Siskel & Ebert”
Matt Fagerholm
Hard Places: Max Walker-Silverman on “Rebuilding”
Isaac Feldberg
Siskel & Ebert at the Movies Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Nell Minow
Can Movies Save the World?
Chaz Ebert
Vince Gilligan’s Riveting “Pluribus” Is the Television Event of the Year
Kaiya Shunyata
You’re Living Intrusive Thoughts: Jennifer Lawrence and Lynne Ramsay on “Die My Love”
Isaac Feldberg
Adaptation is About Subtraction: James Vanderbilt on “Nuremberg”
Nell Minow
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Sepideh Farsi on “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”
Marya E. Gates
Flying with Her Angels: Diane Ladd (1935-2025)
Brian Tallerico
Two Thumbs Up to Siskel & Ebert’s 50th Anniversary: “Eve’s Bayou” Kicks Off Film Series
Chaz Ebert
The Most Movie Moment: Aiyana-Lee on Getting a Surprise DM from Spike Lee and Filming Her First-Ever Movie Scene with Denzel Washington
Nell Minow
Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend
Robert Daniels
HBO’s Zennial Comedy “I Love LA” Lets Rachel Sennott Navigate Life, Love, and Influence
Clint Worthington
“The Witcher” Changes Its Face and Loses Some Of Its Magic in Season 4
Clint Worthington
Apple TV Sends Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson “Down Cemetery Road” in Stylish Fashion
Richard Roeper
CIFF 2025: The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin, The Holy Boy, Anything That Moves
Peter Sobczynski
CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds
Robert Daniels
CIFF 2025: “Wind, Talk to Me,” “Brand New Landscape,” “The Girl in the Snow”
Robert Daniels
The Breadth of Humanity: Yorgos Lanthimos & Will Tracy on “Bugonia”
Zachary Lee
Season 2 of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” Keeps the Formula With Some Improvements
Cristina Escobar
CIFF 2025: The Stranger, Franz, Kontinental ’25
Robert Daniels
11 Times That D’Angelo Made a Movie Better with his Music
Craig D. Lindsey
The 11 Best Body-Swap Movies, Ranked
Nell Minow
William Fichtner Transforms AMC’s “Talamasca” Into Something Worthwhile
Kaiya Shunyata
I Wanted Them to Be Weird: Director John McPhail on Mixing Genres and Encouraging Actors in “Grow”
Nell Minow
In the Third Season of “The Diplomat,” It’s All Upsides and Distances, Darling
Sherin Nicole
“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy” is a Tough but Important Watch
Cristina Escobar
Nothing Closes the Doors to Creating: Jafar Pahani on “It Was Just an Accident”
Zachary Lee
It’s A Process: Kelly Reichardt on “The Mastermind” and Josh O’Connor’s Timeless Mug
Chase Hutchinson
CBS Wants Your Sitcom Time to Be Spent at the “DMV”
Brian Tallerico
You Play Well: Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
Scout Tafoya
Apple TV+ Thriller “The Last Frontier” Gets Snowed Under In Pulpy Action and Cheap Melodrama
Clint Worthington
Tim Robinson Sits in a World of Paranoid Conspiracies in HBO’s “The Chair Company”
Brian Tallerico
Your Life Matters: Jane Goodall (1934-2025)
Marya E. Gates
Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year
Brian Tallerico
Apple TV+’s “The Sisters Grimm” is a Fractured, Frustrating Animated Fairy Tale
Rendy Jones
Home Entertainment Guide: “28 Years Later,” “Materialists,” “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” More
Brian Tallerico
The Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia: Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
Brian Tallerico
NYFF 2025: The 63rd New York Film Festival Centers Film and Poetry
Godfrey Cheshire
“Borderlands 4” Invites Gamers to Spend Months in Its Chaotic World
Brian Tallerico
Fantastic Fest 2025: CAMP, Bad Haircut, Theater is Dead
Brian Tallerico
Fantastic Fest 2025: Mārama, Mother of Flies, Bulk
Brian Tallerico
Marvel Animation’s “Marvel Zombies” Doesn’t Have Enough Flesh On Its Shambling Bones
Rendy Jones
An Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls
Nell Minow
Fantastic Fest 2025: Night Patrol, Dolly, Dinner to Die For
Brian Tallerico
Fantastic Fest 2025: Primate, Bride of Re-Animator
Brian Tallerico
The First Responders of the Internet: Lili Reinhart on “American Sweatshop”
Zachary Lee
Season 3 of “Tulsa King” Features Boomers, Bullets, and Bourbon, Oh My
Clint Worthington
TIFF 2025: A Canadian Viewpoint on the Toronto International Film Festival at 50
Jason Gorber
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