I’m not a fan.

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I'm (re)watching quite a few holiday movies for a Christmas listicle that I'm writing. (stay tuned)!!

A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival - by Robert Daniels www.rogerebert.com/festivals/a-...

This is such a fantastic conversation between Marya and Sepideh Farsi about one of the best, most aching documentaries of the year.

"Her face is like a territory in flux. We see the changes on her face, but it is a soft, very enlightened face that is slipping away gradually, and that is the ultimate horror of it" For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I spoke to Sepideh Farsi about her astonishing film PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK

See Black Harvest Festival films in Chicago!!

We’re at that point of the year where I get invited to a million screenings in nyc and LA that I can’t remotely attend.

With Black Harvest Film Festival just around the corner, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wrote up a quick preview highlighting 5 films that you should go see!

"The festival boasts an eclectic and vibrant array of Black stories whose diasporic origins and bold ingenuity provide cinematic warmth to a dedicated community,” writes @812filmreviews.com in his preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival.

Last share!

For those who watched HEDDA over the weekend.

Holy crap now I have to find a subtitled version of Death is a Caress.

October was filled with film festivals, interviews, and big screen shenanigans.

It’s Noirvember!!! That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”

Co-sign, one of the best of the year

Really want to see this

A heads-up: Jafar Panahi's brilliant Palme d'Or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is doing a one-week run at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. Per my review, you should see it.

I spoke to the people waiting in line for the Criterion Mobile Closet.

Last week, associate editor @812filmreviews.com spoke with people who entered the Criterion Mobile Closet during its stint in Chicago for the 61st Chicago International Film Festival.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend - by Robert Daniels www.rogerebert.com/features/cri...

for the afternoon crowd

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So far I've gotten some pretty good responses to this piece. Thanks to everyone who's read.

This week's guide has A LOT of films, including THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT, which is one of my favorite films of the year, and one I think that everyone should see asap.

This rules. I wish I had gone to Riot Fest to ask people watching a version of The Beach Boys led by MAGA-lover Mike Love what they think of ICE’s assault on the city

thinking again about how I wanted to go to the mobile Criterion Closet in LA but it was already booked up by 8 AM even though Criterion had sent out an email explicitly telling people not to line up before 8 because it disturbs the neighborhood it was parked in bsky.app/profile/812f...

With the Criterion Mobile Closet visiting Chicago International Film Festival, I spoke to those standing in line about what it felt like being there while ICE and the No Kings protests swirled around the city. Their thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

"None of the stuff that has to be protected for the sake of the audience’s viewing pleasure is actually worth protecting." I'm still shocked at the significant amount praise HALLOW ROAD has generated.

Even with a very good Billy Magnussen, I’m quite tepid on the rote revenge thriller VIOLENT ENDS. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

It was really fun chopping it up with Nia DaCosta about making films about complex Black women, the role of class in her films, and reality baking shows.

icymi

Your Noirvember watchlist needs satisfied here from the icon herself @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social

For @letterboxd.social I wrote a starter pack of films directed by women to watch this #Noirvember!

I think Nia DaCosta's HEDDA is fantastic. It's a show of style and force that features the best performance of Tessa Thompson's career. Here's the conversation I did with DaCosta for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

“I’m committed to presenting complex Black women on screen, especially Black women behaving badly.” For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I spoke with Nia DaCosta about her latest collaboration with Tessa Thompson: HEDDA!

This is my sixth year on the @weare_thegotham nominating committee for performance!!! I’m so proud of the work myself, @judysquirrels.bsky.social, @briantallerico.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social, @douglasgrnwd.bsky.social did to pull together such a stellar and diverse group of nominees.

I'm mixed on Yorgos Lanthimos's BUGONIA. On the one had, Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone are unreal in the pitch black comedy. On the other hand, I think the film sorta runs away from itself. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

As BUGONIA expands into more theaters, don’t miss the review from @812filmreviews, where he writes that it’s “an enraged picture” and praises the “deliberate” structuring to reveal the full scope of that anger.

"These films, to varying degrees of success, stand as a testament to the importance of remembrance, even when the memories hurt,” writes @812filmreviews.com abt THE BEAUTY OF THE DONKEY, THE EYES OF GHANA, & BELOW THE CLOUDS. www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ci...

“Atmospheric and measured” are the two words that describe BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE, THE GIRL IN THE SNOW, & WIND, TALK TO ME from @chifilmfest. Read the reviews from @812filmreviews.com:

Patrick Kennedy as E.B. White is quietly indispensable in BLUE MOON.

For my final #CIFF dispatch, I covered three documentaries at the festival about remembrance. My thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social about THE BEAUTY OF THE DONKEY, THE EYES OF GHANA, and BELOW THE CLOUDS.

For my latest #CIFF dispatch I wrote about three incredible films by relatively new directors. Here are my thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social about WIND, TALK WITH ME, BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE, and THE GIRL IN THE SNOW.

CHICAGO!: @scotttobias.bsky.social's New Cult Canon column comes to the big screen TONIGHT via a screening of the great UNDER THE SKIN at the great @davistheater.bsky.social in beautiful Lincoln Square. Tickets are still available:

I became an infinitely better writer when I started thinking about Black art in terms of sincerity instead of authenticity.

I became an infinitely better writer when I started thinking about Black art in terms of sincerity instead of authenticity.

ICYMI

For my first #CIFF dispatch I wrote about THE STRANGER, FRANZ, and another Radu Jude banger KONTINENTAL ‘25. My festival thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.