Happy New Year from Chaz Ebert and RogerEbert.com! | Chaz’s Journal

When the Chicago Critics Film Festival made its long-awaited return to the Windy City’s historic Music Box Theatre in November, Matt Fagerholm penned an in-depth interview with one of the festival’s celebrated guests, author Barry Gifford, who shared some priceless stories about Roger’s longtime co-host, Gene Siskel. This month, our writers shared their picks for the best films of 2021, and I did the same with my own list, which I am continuing to update.

We lost many giants this year, including Melvin Van Peebles, Cicely Tyson, Norman Lloyd and Michael Apted, and paid tribute to them with thoughtful and illuminating tributes. You will find many more in our Tributes section.

Finally, I want to give one more shout-out to our Managing Editor, Brian Tallerico; our Editor-at-Large, Matt Zoller Seitz; and our three Assistant Editors, Nick Allen, Matt Fagerholm and Nell Minow for all of their hard work this year. Thank you to our formidable roster of critics, our esteemed contributors and all of our readers and subscribers for keeping film discourse alive and well.

Roger, the conversation about movies continues…

Here’s wishing you many blessings throughout the new year: Health, Peace, Joy, Prosperity, Love and above all, Good Movies!

Loving Regards,

Chaz Ebert

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