Isaac Feldberg
@isaacfeldberg.bsky.social
Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
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They're called oners because they're onerous.
January 5, 2026 at 7:21 AM
They're called oners because they're onerous.
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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
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“Grok says” - you might as well be quoting a Magic 8-Ball, what the fuck is wrong with you
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
“Grok says” - you might as well be quoting a Magic 8-Ball, what the fuck is wrong with you
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“Is it madness, or is it some form of spirituality?”
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
Ecstasy and Agony: Mona Fastvold on "The Testament of Ann Lee" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The filmmaker talks about the dazzling musicality and "dreamlike quality" of her latest.
www.rogerebert.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Is it madness, or is it some form of spirituality?”
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
“Is it madness, or is it some form of spirituality?”
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
Ecstasy and Agony: Mona Fastvold on "The Testament of Ann Lee" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The filmmaker talks about the dazzling musicality and "dreamlike quality" of her latest.
www.rogerebert.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Is it madness, or is it some form of spirituality?”
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...
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The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Bridging the Void: On “The Fall of Otrar” and the Historical Epic
As Adak Amirkulov excavates the deep past, records are lost and recreated as legends.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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On the New York-ness of Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' released on this day in 2001:
‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ at 20: When Wes Anderson Imagined New York (Published 2021)
The film’s vision of the city is at once entirely made up and very real seeming, both dated and contemporary. But the movie couldn’t outrun current events.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
On the New York-ness of Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' released on this day in 2001:
OK, but what if I loved ELLA MCCAY, what then boxd.it/c2zEUH
A ★★★½ review of Ella McCay (2025)
Wasn’t prepared to enjoy this as much as I did, or for how cohesive or good-natured its thesis on the inherent clash between—and inevitable overlap of—personal and professional ethics would be. But lo...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
OK, but what if I loved ELLA MCCAY, what then boxd.it/c2zEUH
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watched this last night and its instantly in my top 5 of 2025. tremendous cinema. endlessly clippable if that's your thing. every frame immaculate
I reviewed Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet’s delirious, dazzling new genre deconstruction REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, now on Shudder, for RogerEbert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/refl...
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
watched this last night and its instantly in my top 5 of 2025. tremendous cinema. endlessly clippable if that's your thing. every frame immaculate
Bring me the head of JAY KELLY boxd.it/bXmsjN
A ★½ review of Jay Kelly (2025)
Somehow, George Clooney convened a movie star pity party for himself that involves extended sojourns in the Italian countryside, tailoring by Caruso as overseen by Jacqueline Durran, and a finale that...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Bring me the head of JAY KELLY boxd.it/bXmsjN
Kristen Stewart’s THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER is miraculous; an exhilarating feat of adaptation in how she finds cinematic form for Lidia Yuknavitch’s poetics of the body, translating her lacerating, jagged, nonlinear prose into a slipstream of sense memory: boxd.it/9Ilo7Z
A ★★★★★ review of The Chronology of Water (2025)
Eight years in the making, Stewart’s truly miraculous “The Chronology of Water” adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name into a ferocious, full-throated cri de cœur without sacrificing s...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Kristen Stewart’s THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER is miraculous; an exhilarating feat of adaptation in how she finds cinematic form for Lidia Yuknavitch’s poetics of the body, translating her lacerating, jagged, nonlinear prose into a slipstream of sense memory: boxd.it/9Ilo7Z
I reviewed Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet’s delirious, dazzling new genre deconstruction REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, now on Shudder, for RogerEbert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/refl...
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I reviewed Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet’s delirious, dazzling new genre deconstruction REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, now on Shudder, for RogerEbert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/refl...
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"This is a hypnotic, invigorating film, and a step up for the [directing] duo—much like the diamonds that shimmer so seductively through their frames, it has a cold, bright, gem-like brilliance,” writes @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social about REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND.
Reflection in a Dead Diamond movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
This is a hypnotic, invigorating film.
www.rogerebert.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"This is a hypnotic, invigorating film, and a step up for the [directing] duo—much like the diamonds that shimmer so seductively through their frames, it has a cold, bright, gem-like brilliance,” writes @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social about REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND.
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A movie so good that I needed @splicedpersonality.bsky.social and @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social to wrangle it. New #Eephus takes at @ohmpods.bsky.social
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ONE HOT TAKE: EEPHUS w/ Sean Burns and Isaac Feldberg
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December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A movie so good that I needed @splicedpersonality.bsky.social and @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social to wrangle it. New #Eephus takes at @ohmpods.bsky.social
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Broken Voices (premiering at BIFF) could have been punishing or moralistic; instead, it is quietly devastating, resisting exploitation by emphasising systems that allow atrocity to persist unseen. Listen to @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social + I on @ohmpods.bsky.social
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ONE HOT FEST: BROKEN VOICES w/ Isaac Feldberg — One Heat Minute Productions
Broken Voices could have been punishing or moralistic; instead, it is quietly devastating, resisting exploitation by emphasising systems rather than scandals, the collective habits that allow atrocit...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Broken Voices (premiering at BIFF) could have been punishing or moralistic; instead, it is quietly devastating, resisting exploitation by emphasising systems that allow atrocity to persist unseen. Listen to @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social + I on @ohmpods.bsky.social
www.oneheatminute.com/one-hot-fest...
www.oneheatminute.com/one-hot-fest...
Amanda Seyfried in THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE — an immense performance. Sublimating suffering into faith, agony into ecstasy, both in every movement and glance, she embodies a vision of worship as all-consuming fire — cry of rage, song of survival, devotion and defiance made one.
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Amanda Seyfried in THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE — an immense performance. Sublimating suffering into faith, agony into ecstasy, both in every movement and glance, she embodies a vision of worship as all-consuming fire — cry of rage, song of survival, devotion and defiance made one.
SENTIMENTAL VALUE is a trove of lovely performances, but what Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning convey in their portrayal of an actor-director relationship feels rich and honest in surprisingly vulnerable ways. I spoke to them both for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...
A Source of Inspiration: Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on "Sentimental Value" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
An interview with the two supporting stars of Joachim Trier's latest film.
www.rogerebert.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
SENTIMENTAL VALUE is a trove of lovely performances, but what Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning convey in their portrayal of an actor-director relationship feels rich and honest in surprisingly vulnerable ways. I spoke to them both for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...
Not since their “Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse” story has the writing in a Vanity Fair piece made my eyes bleed like this www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Not since their “Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse” story has the writing in a Vanity Fair piece made my eyes bleed like this www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
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I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
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"You can do anything on the set, and you’re not a tool; really, you’re a source of inspiration.”
@isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ Elle Fanning & Stellan Skarsgård abt the unusual depth of their on-screen dynamic in SENTIMENTAL VALUE, the filmmakers who’ve helped them feel seen, & more:
@isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ Elle Fanning & Stellan Skarsgård abt the unusual depth of their on-screen dynamic in SENTIMENTAL VALUE, the filmmakers who’ve helped them feel seen, & more:
A Source of Inspiration: Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on "Sentimental Value" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
An interview with the two supporting stars of Joachim Trier's latest film.
www.rogerebert.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"You can do anything on the set, and you’re not a tool; really, you’re a source of inspiration.”
@isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ Elle Fanning & Stellan Skarsgård abt the unusual depth of their on-screen dynamic in SENTIMENTAL VALUE, the filmmakers who’ve helped them feel seen, & more:
@isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ Elle Fanning & Stellan Skarsgård abt the unusual depth of their on-screen dynamic in SENTIMENTAL VALUE, the filmmakers who’ve helped them feel seen, & more:
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“in making it, you’re lost along the way”. can't agree more, that's how we give meaning to our existence.
"The film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory. On one level, we need to forget, to forgive a difficult parent. On the other hand, we owe it to the past to remember certain things, not to repeat those faults."
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
We Live in Time: Joachim Trier on "Sentimental Value" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The filmmaker sits down for a wide-ranging discussion of his film’s poignant themes, the challenges and joys of working with time, and more.
www.rogerebert.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“in making it, you’re lost along the way”. can't agree more, that's how we give meaning to our existence.
Joachim Trier had a deeply personal connection to SENTIMENTAL VALUE, he says; his maternal grandfather, Erik Løchen—one of Norway’s better-known filmmakers, and a jazz musician—suffered under Nazi occupation and turned to art in part to process his ordeal www.rogerebert.com/interviews/s...
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Joachim Trier had a deeply personal connection to SENTIMENTAL VALUE, he says; his maternal grandfather, Erik Løchen—one of Norway’s better-known filmmakers, and a jazz musician—suffered under Nazi occupation and turned to art in part to process his ordeal www.rogerebert.com/interviews/s...
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"The film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory. On one level, we need to forget, to forgive a difficult parent. On the other hand, we owe it to the past to remember certain things, not to repeat those faults."
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
We Live in Time: Joachim Trier on "Sentimental Value" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The filmmaker sits down for a wide-ranging discussion of his film’s poignant themes, the challenges and joys of working with time, and more.
www.rogerebert.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory. On one level, we need to forget, to forgive a difficult parent. On the other hand, we owe it to the past to remember certain things, not to repeat those faults."
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
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Our FRANKENSTEIN one-shot is sold out in our online shop, but still available at the fine establishments listed below
You can get it at:
Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons, Publix, HyVee, Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Wakefern Shoprite, HEB, Walmart, Target, Meijer
Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid
Hudson News (Fango in airports! 🤯), Paradies, Trofie, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million.
Not available at Piggly Wiggly… yet.
Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons, Publix, HyVee, Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Wakefern Shoprite, HEB, Walmart, Target, Meijer
Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid
Hudson News (Fango in airports! 🤯), Paradies, Trofie, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million.
Not available at Piggly Wiggly… yet.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our FRANKENSTEIN one-shot is sold out in our online shop, but still available at the fine establishments listed below
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“We need to learn from history. And I think the film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory.” @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ SENTIMENTAL VALUE dir. Joachim Trier abt the challenges & joys of working w/ time, inescapable influence of Ingmar Bergman.
We Live in Time: Joachim Trier on "Sentimental Value" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The filmmaker sits down for a wide-ranging discussion of his film’s poignant themes, the challenges and joys of working with time, and more.
www.rogerebert.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“We need to learn from history. And I think the film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory.” @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social spoke w/ SENTIMENTAL VALUE dir. Joachim Trier abt the challenges & joys of working w/ time, inescapable influence of Ingmar Bergman.