"Is it ironic that this film provoked such a loud response yet is so quiet? Much of the film is silent.” Omer M. Mozaffar reflects on NO OTHER LAND and his personal connection to the film given his proximity to Bridgeview, Illinois (nicknamed “Little Palestine”)

"A morbid soul like myself would have preferred the series to further amp up its darkness quotient, but for an eight-episode watch amongst a vast sea of dreck, this is damn good stuff,” writes Nandini Balial about THE BEAST IN ME.

“There's enough to like here to forgive a film whose ambition exceeds its reach, both in some of those ideas and a flawless supporting cast, especially another fantastic turn from Adam Sandler,” writes @briantallerico.bsky.social abt JAY KELLY. In select theaters tomorrow:

“LAST SAMURAI STANDING … seamlessly integrates some of the most intricate action filmmaking to be seen on television in years with a beating human heart that makes us care,” says @rendy.bsky.social about the Netflix show.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE in select theaters now and will expand throughout this month. At @tiffnet.bsky.social, @zacharylee.bsky.social spoke w/ dir. Joachim Trier & stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, & Elle Fanning about movies that have been empathy machines for them.

I learned about my 2 favorite films of all-time (Gates Of Heaven and My Dinner With Andre) from Siskel and Ebert

I reviewed BEING EDDIE for @ebertvoices.bsky.social. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bein...

I have some mixed feelings about JAY KELLY, especially the midsection, but I love everything Adam Sandler does in it. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social . www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jay-...

Grateful I could go to various red carpets on behalf of @ebertvoices.bsky.social to ask folks, in the spirit of Roger, “What’s a movie that’s been an empathy machine for you?” The teaser shows a snapshot of the fine folks I was able to interview:

RogerEbert.com is proud to be a part of a network of sites that has awarded Julia Loktev’s film MY UNDESIREABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW with the 2025 IFSN Advocate Award. Read more about the award and other films that were cited: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/my...

“Eddie Murphy refuses to look back in anger. The man remains optimistic, even when discussing death,” writes Craig D. Lindsey about the documentary, BEING EDDIE.

"When Siskel and Ebert used their platform to champion a picture that lacked the marketing budget of major studio releases, they single-handedly motivated potential audience members from around the country to see it,” reflects Matt Fagerholm on the 50th Anniversary of SISKEL AND EBERT.

“Japanese films let their guard down inside the safe, enveloping darkness of the cinema,” writes @@rifewithkatie.bsky.social in her dispatch from the Tokyo Film Festival, which includes reviews on SATO AND SATO, BLUE BOY TRIAL, POCA PON, and BLONDE.

“The stunning art direction is back … the sets with their mod architecture and period touches continue the visual feast. … More importantly, stuff happens!” writes Cristina Escobar in her review of a much improved second season of PALM ROYALE. www.rogerebert.com/streaming/pa...

“Director Luke Greenfield’s atrocious PLAYDATE is a remarkably stupid movie that thinks you’re remarkably stupid too,” lambastes @briantallerico.bsky.social.

Elated that ALIEN: EARTH is coming back for s2. Back when the season finale aired, I spoke with Sydney Chandler & Babou Ceesay abt where they’d like to see their characters go. Full interview at @ebertvoices.bsky.social (spoilers: will the partnership between hybrid & Xeno last?) Link below:

Our Social Media Manager, @Zacharylee.bsky.social, attended red carpets at various Fall Film Festivals. In the spirit of Roger’s famous words, he asked actors and directors "Which movies have been empathy machines for you?” Watch the teaser to see the talent he talked to. Who can you spot? 🧵

As Joe Wright’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE celebrates its 20 year anniversary, read Roger’s 4/4 star review, where he writes "When Lizzie and Darcy finally accept each other in … I felt an almost unreasonable happiness.”

“The more distance you get from it, the more it falls apart,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about THE RUNNING MAN, which is “dirtier & nastier” than the 1987 film, but is “not much more insightful about the nihilistic emptiness and cruelty of modern life.”

“NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T … understands that the only magic trick left is staying a step ahead of the plot guessers … that plus a strong cast, is the only thing preventing it from turning into jumbled, giant bag of arbitrary plot twists,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social.

REBUILDING, out this week, is a wistful and elegiac picture that still left me hopeful about our capacity to rise out of ashes and make something more beautiful of our world — in other words, it's a distant dream, but a welcome one. Loved speaking to Max Walker-Silverman about it earlier this year.

If you’re trying to expand your gaming empire and the price tag doesn’t push you away, @briantallerico.bsky.social recommends picking up the ROG Xbox Ally X, which gave him "flashbacks to playing handheld games for the last four decades” of his life.

In her latest dispatch from the Tokyo Film Festival, @rifewithkatie.bsky.social reviews MOTHER BHUMI, MORTE CUCINA, WE ARE THE FRUITS OF THE FIRST, & TUNNELS: SUN IN THE DARK, & reflects how "it’s refreshing to experience cinema curation from a perspective that doesn’t center America.”

"We often think of resilience as a continuation of something, whereas I hope resilience can also be a reimagination of something." Director Max Walker-Silverman spoke with @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social abt his Josh O’Connor-starring cowboy drama REBUILDING & abt the beauty that emerges after loss:

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. I interviewed and was star struck by him twice. Once was on stage at the Museum of the Moving Image after a screening of the paranoid spy comedy AGE OF ASSASSINS, and once was for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...

In her dispatch from the Tokyo Film Festival, @rifewithkatie.bsky.social speaks w/ director Terasaki Mizuho abt JOURNEY INTO SATO TADAO, which makes the case for Tadao as 1 of Japan’s most important film critics. Read on for surprising intersections btwn Ebert & Tadao’s work.

Chaz Ebert will be discussing THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD? with director Gabe Polsky in attendance along with international peace activist Patrick McCollum. More information about the screening:

"Audiences loved SISKEL & EBERT because it taught them what to look for in movies, what made them work, and how they told stories." Contributing Editor @nellminow.bsky.social compiles some favorite moments from the show that later became SNEAK PREVIEWS, and then SISKEL & EBERT AT THE MOVIES.

“It’s gorgeous … the acting is engaging, embodying the characters with a pretentious capriciousness fitting the aristocrats of that time, and the writing moves along. I’m struggling to define why this show didn’t spark for me, except I was bored,” writes Sherin Nicole about THE SEDUCTION.

“With a bait-and-switch approach, whose ultimate deployment feels wholly unearned, LONG SHADOWS takes viewers on a long, winding, and emotionally inept journey,” writes @812filmreviews.com.

"The compassion director Tommy Dorfman brings to every character is endearing, and her unquestioning love for them makes this a heartwarming gem,” writes @nellminow.bsky.social about I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.

"PLURIBUS quickly shapes up to be one of this year’s most complicated and thrilling television series & has the potential to define this decade like Vince Gilligan’s previous series defined the beginning of the century,” writes Kaiya Shunyata about the Apple TV show.

"None of this is easy, and not much of it is fun. But DIE MY LOVE is a wild and worthwhile ride,” writes @sheilakathleen.bsky.social in her 3.5/4 star review:

"Christy Martin overcame meager beginnings, disapproving parents, an abusive marriage, and the self-loathing of the closet to emerge as a trailblazing figure in women’s boxing. But CHRISTY the movie about her life, takes no such risks,” writes @christylemire.bsky.social:

“NUREMBERG should be impossible to watch without thinking about the genocides, wars, and state repressions happening all over the world, and whether those responsible will ever be held accountable,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social.

“ALL THAT WE LOVE can feel like a bit of a balm at the end of a tough year & its subdued, no-frills drama may be just the space one needs for a good cry,” writes @mcastimovies.bsky.social:

“When do we have silence, and when do we let loose something that we’ve really honed in on?” @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ Lynne Ramsay & Jennifer Lawrence abt DIE MY LOVE, running on instinct, picking the film’s musical selections, & more.

TRAIN DREAMS is in limited theaters now. In his 4/4 star review, @briantallerico.bsky.social writes how it’s a film that is "a meditation on the beauty of everyone and everything, how we are connected to both the earth and those who walked it before us.”

Dir. Ira Sachs PETER HUJAR’S DAY is in theaters now, which @mcastimovies.bsky.social calls "a surprisingly beautiful and subtle tribute to the balancing act it takes to be a working artist.”

"There has rarely been a film in which the family dynamic is more genuinely defined than in this one,” writes @briantallerico.bsky.social about SENTIMENTAL VALUE, which is in limited theaters now.

"It all adds up to a flipping good time—a chance to watch good people achieve a bit of excellence in their little corner of the world, while laughing at the absurdity of the society that surrounds them,” writes Cristina Escobar about the NBC Mockumentary Sitcom STUMBLE.

NUREMBERG is in theaters now & Contributing Editor @nellminow.bsky.social spoke with dir. James Vanderbilt abt the advice he got from David Fincher, how research shifted the story’s focus, and casting a then-unknown in a key role:

This sounds awesome. Loved PREY, need to watch the animated one and go see this Friday. (Thx @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social)

"If you take a macro rather than micro view, the film’s majestic ambition is easy to see—and its timing is chillingly perfect,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about ANNIVERSARY.

"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

As always, @freespace.howtowatchfree.tv.ap.brid.gy supports @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social! This is a beautiful look at Fatma Hassona's work thru the eyes of Sepideh Farsi:

Well this sold me. I'll be at the theater tomorrow afternoon.

I forgot that I reviewed the Predator prequel, PREY at @ebertvoices.bsky.social. Consider it a companion piece to my Globe review of PREDATOR: BADLANDS. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/prey...

“DEATH BY LIGHTNING remembers James Garfield as a decent man who never wanted to be president but might have made for a good one had he been given the time,” writes Richard Roeper about the limited series. Now on Netflix:

For this month’s Female Filmmakers in Focus column, @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social spoke to dir. Sepideh Farsi abt PUT YOUR HAND ON YOUR SOUL AND WALK, the film’s unique visual language, her hope that people will remember the unwavering spirit & singular life of Fatma Hassona forever.