After a stellar year of television in 2025, @briantallerico.bsky.social looks forward to 40 shows we can look forward to in 2026, including returning favorites as well as new projects from major creative talents.

André Holland was in my favorite film of 2024, EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, so it was a joy to not only meet and speak with him in-person, but discuss how he views that film in conversation with LOVE, BROOKLYN, THE ACTOR, & THE DUTCHMAN. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

My face hurts from laughing the more I think about SUNLIGHT. It's such a special film and when writing my review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I felt like I was able to put into words what I loved about it:

Like LURKER, I saw SORRY, BABY at @sundance.org and I haven't been able to shake its tranquil and devastating spell. To talk to writer, director, and star Eva Victor for @ebertvoices.bsky.social about a film that meant so much to me was the highest honor:

For one of my final pieces for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, loved slathering the adulation about Nine Inch Nails' score for TRON: ARES. If this wasn't the score you were using to usher in the new year, you weren't ending 2025 right:

Man, this show is so good.

"The writing on THE PITT has been praised for its medical detail, but it’s the human detail that this non-doctor finds so remarkable,” writes @briantallerico.bsky.social in praise of the show’s second season.

As 2025 draws to a close, @briantallerico.bsky.social anticipates the movies we’ll be talking about 12 months from now. Read the full list of some of the most exciting titles of 2026 which includes a healthy mix of returning masters, follow-ups to recent hits, and even a few interesting blockbusters

"By the time LAND OF SIN limps to its sigh of a finale, it’s hard to justify watching this one over the scores of other, more interesting takes on the cold-blooded crime show out there,” writes @clintworthing.bsky.social.

From @ebertvoices.bsky.social and Chaz Ebert, a look back at 2025 and plans for the new year. www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/h...

Folks, it's high time we reclaim I'll Do Anything

2026 marks the 50th anniversary of when Gru first met the Minions! @briantallerico.bsky.social knew I loved the Minions, so I usually got to review their movies at @ebertvoices.bsky.social. This is a loose and very silly review, something I rarely do at the Globe. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mini...

The Minions also gave readers insight into exactly how my brain works when writing a review. Readers thought this review was a gimmick I concocted after the fact, but honestly, I really was working through my thoughts as I wrote this for @ebertvoices.bsky.social. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/desp...

Sharing again if you're looking for a great movie to kick off 2026 with from 2025. Also recommend reading the other great picks that all the other lovely folks @ebertvoices.bsky.social selected as well. Here's hoping this year brings as many exciting and bold new discoveries as the prior one did 📽️

I wrote about all the stephen king adaptations we got last year!

No rest for the wicked -- my first review of 2026 is up at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, this time on the also-ran Netflix Scandi crime show LAND OF SIN. Basically, yawn, if you've seen one of these you've seen em all. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/land...

"It’s hard to see a need to return to the well here, especially considering THE DUTCHMAN’s greatest weakness–a complete and total disinterest in Black women,” writes @judysquirrels.bsky.social.

For the year’s first UNLOVED series, @honorszombie.bsky.social looks back at ELLA MCCAY director James L. Brooks’ I’LL DO ANYTHING, which he calls "as charmingly weird as ever.”

"So did the Duffers stick the landing & send these popular characters off in style? Yes & no. The finale falls victim to some of the issues that plagued the entire season, but it’s hard to deny the power of the last half-hour,” writes @briantallerico.bsky.social abt the STRANGER THINGS finale:

ESSENTIAL READING: Godfrey Cheshire's new @ebertvoices.bsky.social piece on Panahi and Kiarostami, in celebration of the series he programmed at IFC Center, which starts January 2.

2025 By The Numbers: 233 bylines @ebertvoices.bsky.social 69 bylines @vulture.com 37 bylines @avclub.com 5 bylines @rollingstone.com 9 film festivals attended 3 kids raised I’m sure I’m forgetting a few things here and there but I’ll take it. Toasting to an even better 2026!

From everyone at RogerEbert.com, we wish everyone a happy new year! Read Chaz Ebert’s recap and reflections on the work done by our team:

Our contributor, Godfrey Cheshire, has curated a series at the IFC Center that puts the films of Jafar Panahi and Abbas Kiarostami in conversation Read a preview about how he thought of the pairings:

“RUN AWAY devolves into such a ludicrous assemblage of coincidences and nonsensical plot twists that only the most hardcore Harlanheads will be able to run with it,” writes @briantallerico.bsky.social about the latest Netflix miniseries from Harlan Coben.

My favorite piece of all that I wrote in 2025. My @ebertvoices.bsky.social ode to Ossie and Ruby draws parallels between them and the power couple of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. www.rogerebert.com/features/oss...

Over at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wrote a tribute to Jerry Butler and Roberta Flack. "No matter how it got there, that music worked its way into my cells by sonic osmosis when I was growing up. "Nay, the music worked its way into my soul." www.rogerebert.com/tributes/a-g...

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wrote a tribute to Sly Stone. “Perhaps the burden of Black genius includes speaking to our people in such a way that we’re uplifted. It’s a tough mission, considering what we must endure in this world.” www.rogerebert.com/tributes/i-l...

Hey I'm in this!

“Director Marina Zenovich delivers a gripping, funny, insightful, and at times melancholic look at a comedy legend who is in his 80s and still can be alternately charming and irascible in the span of a New York minute,” writes Richard Roeper about I’M CHEVY CHASE AND YOU’RE NOT.

In time for the holidays, @briantallerico.bsky.social reviews several physical media releases, from POSSESSION to David Byrne’s AMERICAN UTOPIA, that are worth the pick-up.

Our regular video game writers each picked three games they would recommend from this year. Read the full list here:

Stephen King hit a milestone in 2025 w/ 4 adaptations of his work released in theaters, in addition to several shows. @judysquirrels.bsky.social writes abt how the King Cinematic Universe shows no sign of fading, for better and worse:

Trying to prioritize what to watch from this year? Read publisher of the site, Chaz Ebert’s, 30 best films of 2025 list (plus one guilty pleasure) to help you get started:

"I’m not against a comfort watch. It is OK for things to be light and fluffy. But BEST MEDICINE isn’t light so much as it is dumb,” writes Cristina Escobar.

“To enjoy the end, you have to have grown up w/ Will, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, & Eleven. The truth is that the elongated production of this show makes that likely for a lot of viewers, who now see these people like family,” reflects @briantallerico.bsky.social abt the second volume of STRANGER THINGS S5

If you ever felt uncomfortable simply trying to talk to your family during the holidays especially when you don't have much in common with them anymore, there's a movie coming out today just for you!

sad to report the new Kevin Bacon/Kyra Sedgwick movie is not very good at all My review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

Felt like such a grinch, but SONG SUNG BLUE didn’t work for me. However, I enjoyed the documentary that inspired it much better.

A powerfully personal piece.

One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️ Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...

Catching up with Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s THE ICE TOWER, which is so far her best since EVOLUTION. My @ebertvoices.bsky.social review of the so-so EARWIG here: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/earw... And my Ebert review of the astounding EVOLUTION: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/evol...

As THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE begins its limited theatrical release, @isaacfeldberg spoke w/ dir. Mona Fastvold about the commonalities between the film and THE BRUTALIST, the process of creating this film’s rapturous musical sequences, and the “dreamlike quality” she always seeks in cinema:

"When I think of James Ransone, I often find echoes of my entire life in his filmography … His presence … irrevocably changed my life, and one I will miss for the rest of it,” writes Kaiya Shunyata in a tribute to the late actor.

"It’s clear that the irrepressibly charming Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon love to share the screen, and it is an absolute joy to watch their effortless chemistry. I just wish it were in a better picture,” writes @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social about THE BEST YOU CAN.

“THE CHORAL sings a tune about the impotence of art making in the midst of crisis that bears repeating, as the world that’s all too eager to sacrifice the arts on the altar of productivity and progress,” writes @zacharylee.bsky.social.

"If the narrative doesn’t get you down, then maybe the dialogue will, because it’s perhaps even more leadened and cheesy than many might stomach,” writes @mcastimovies.bsky.social about SONG SUNG BLUE.

“It's a harrowing psychological thriller that transplants the tyranny of puberty to the anxieties of modern boyhood,” lauds @clintworthing.bsky.social in his 4/4 star review of THE PLAGUE.

“THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is a large-scale production, mighty in detail, & Fastvold proves herself up to the challenge of her own aspirations, tackling the weighty biography with the same sort of labor-intensive dedication characteristic of its subject,” writes Peyton Robinson.

A great list. Also, I wrote about Vincent Cassel!

Wrote about the terrific casting in MARTY SUPREME.