Ella Kemp @ellakemp.bsky.social Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
Kate Erbland @katerbland.bsky.social Editorial Director, IndieWire. / NYFCC member. / NYC & Vermont. / Likes coffee, cats, and the Oxford comma. / Bird nerd.🦉
Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social Writer/film critic at tyburrswatchlist.com. Ex-Boston Globe, WaPo, EW. Pulitzer Finalist, 2017. Books at https://tinyurl.com/ytpycuh3. “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news” — Brecht. KanMu.74
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
https://www.jasondashbailey.com/
YIPPEE KI-YAY Book: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/yippee-ki-yay_9781419783753/
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC podcast: pod.link/1274489817
Letterboxd @jasondashbailey
Sam Bodrojan @helmetgirl.bsky.social words in Filmmaker Mag, LARB, Reverse Shot, Peach Mag, Little White Lies, etc.
https://cchelmetgirl.substack.com
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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@karinalongworth.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social 
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Greg Kot @gregkot.bsky.social Co-host "Sound Opinions." Former music critic at Chicago Tribune. Author of 7 books, including "I'll Take You There," “Learning How to Die," "Ripped." Teaching music and democracy at U of C.
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
The Reveal @thereveal.bsky.social A film newsletter by Keith Phipps (@kphipps3000.bsky.social) and Scott Tobias (@scotttobias.bsky.social). http://thereveal.film
Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social Film critic/writer at The Pitch, Paste, Sojourners, rogerebert.com, others. Author of FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hre5e
priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social I write about cars, movies, & cars in movies.
words for Hagerty, Arrow Video, Empire Magazine, Polygon, StudioCanal UK, Second Sight, Southwest Review, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc.
https://linktr.ee/scillapage
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social Editor of ScreenCrush.com, Host of Filmspotting: SVU, and Author of ‘Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever.’ Next: ‘Funny Business,’ a book on 21st century Hollywood comedies. Available on October 6.
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social 
RoscoeBooks @roscoebooks.bsky.social We are your friendly neighborhood bookstore located in Chicago's Roscoe Village. Order online at www.roscoebooks.com.
Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social free palestine. 5-4 podcast. popular cradle podcast. seen some shit.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Adam Kempenaar @filmspotting.bsky.social Iowa Prof | Co-Host of Filmspotting, offering “weekly installments of affable, insightful film analysis since 2005.” — The New York Times
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social Transportation planner working on making biking, walking, rolling & riding safer & easier | Care deeply about transparency | Posts are my own ofc
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social i've got style, miles and miles | researcher for the podcast ‘blank check’ | writer for 'check book,' the ‘blank check’ newsletter, and elsewhere sometimes | phd in movies from the university of wisconsin-madison
Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social Vulture TV critic, SOUND OF METAL Criterion author, Peabody Awards juror, usually complaining about something.
https://www.vulture.com/author/roxana-hadadi/
Nick Schager @nschager.bsky.social Entertainment Critic for The Daily Beast / Beast Obsessed
Endlessly opinionated
John Siracusa @siracusa.social Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not. https://hypercritical.co
Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social Picking a crazy apple off a stem
b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social Dilettante, autodidact, librarian, Chicagoan
Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/
Ashley Clark @ashcclark.bsky.social Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it
https://linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social Film critic who has written for MUBI, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker, Indiewire, and others. More movie thoughts on my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/fcardamenis
Michael Snydel @snydel.bsky.social He/him. Periodic writer about movies, regular musings about everything else. Former writer/podcaster; now i'm just trying to post through it.
largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social the honorable one on The Lost Broadcasts, cohost of Get Cynical, words @ Little White Lies / Reverse Shot / rogerebert.com / Men's Health / Vinegar Syndrome, i have met two capybaras in real life
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com. 
Local Deity @localdeity.bsky.social formerly Joseph_Kickass on the other site
britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social i don't care if you like it.
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social 
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Stevie @littlemascara.bsky.social Chicago’s number one PBS fan and living garden party. Posting through dystopia.
𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a critic who does not exist.
Movie reviews: outlawvern.com. Books I wrote: http://amzn.to/2om4NPP. Patreon: patreon.com/outlawvern
Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
Jason Overbeck @bentclouds.bsky.social Editor/Assistant Editor working in film and advertising.
https://letterboxd.com/bentclouds/
Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com Tenderhearted sicko. CFCA member. I write about movies, feminism, theology, and sad men in space for Bright Wall/Dark Room and Seeing & Believing. The second edition of my book Becoming Alien is available now.
dodgyboffin.com
Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social Film Critic. Projectionalist.
www.splicedpersonality.com
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.
Chris Klimek @ctklimek.bsky.social Semi-pro aesthete; less-pro athlete. Writing about theatre, movies, books, and ephemera wherever I'm welcome. Sweaty man, sweaty jokes.
Jenni Olson @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social I'm @JenniOlsonSF everywhere | Senior Director, Social Media Safety at @glaad.bsky.social. LGBTQ film expert & online pioneer. Maker of films. Proprietor: Butch.org
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org Chicagoans working together to make our streets better for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit.
🧑🦼🚶🚲🚌
linktr.ee/betterstreetschicago
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk digital editor @ Little White Lies. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
author of books on sofia coppola + wes anderson, MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS out Nov 2026, Jackass book Oct 2027!
https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong
Manuela Lazić @manilazic.bsky.social writer actor filmmaker french
https://linktr.ee/manilazic
Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social Raised on Blackpool postcards and Benny Hill, religious nut, Film Nerddom's Jake LaMotta, Japan WW2 apologist, loyal adherent to the disco movement, Deplorable. I block headshrinkers.
Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, The Playlist, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse.
📧 For work: rafiews@gmail.com
👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else.
www.rafiews.com
Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled.
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social Economist; Professor @law.ucla.edu; senior fellow @piie.com; former tax DAS at Treasury; Author, Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Emily Barney @sundaesmilemily.bsky.social Chicago Cinephile Czechophile
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social Writer. Programmer of Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Montréal/Tiohtià:ke
Andy Horbal @prdglcinephile.bsky.social I chase things till I think I've chased them enough, then I quit. Blog: https://prodigalcinephile.com
Saige Walton @saigeness.bsky.social Academic, Writer, Former Curator. Author of Cinema’s Baroque Flesh (AUP, 2016), among other things… Eternal cinephile, ethical hedonist. More to follow.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
juskewitch @juskewitch.bsky.social adam. relentless picnic.
@nictate.bsky.social @nictate.bsky.social 
Aaron Davis @revaarondavis.bsky.social Prison chaplain, church elder, author, husband, dad, grandpa. Working on a DMIN.
Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social CFCA President - Editor http://RogerEbert.com - Bylines at Vulture, AV Club, NYT, GQ, Arrow, The Playlist, Rolling Stone, LA Times, elsewhere - Producer CCFF - Father of 3 Boys - Not Vince Gilligan
Jon @arfmeasures.bsky.social I'm only on season 3 of the news. No spoilers please.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eovcv23qyhbah4huiqzirnp4/feed/aaaea46bxsi3k
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
https://zachmortice.com
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.