RogerEbert.com Writer Chaz Ebert will seem at FACETS this Thursday, December 4, alongside host Lee Shoquist, filmmaker Bing Liu (“Minding the Gap“) and critic Michael Phillips, discussing one of the best movies of 2025. You’ll be able to even vote in your favourite movies and take part in an public sale to help the FACETS mission. Get tickets here and take a look at the public sale objects here. Highlights embrace a particular screening of the masterful “Ghostlight,” restaurant present playing cards, a Siskel Movie Middle membership, and far more. Please see official data from FACETS beneath and get your tickets whilst you can!
What made the minimize for one of the best movies of 2025? Discover out from the consultants.
Be part of main movie critics, indie filmmakers, and Chicago’s vibrant neighborhood of cinema lovers at FACETS for Critic’s Lower 2025 — a one-night-only celebration spotlighting the yr’s most unforgettable movies and honoring 50 years of FACETS.
Hosted by Lee Shoquist (Movie Critic, Chicago Movie Critics Affiliation), with particular company Chaz Ebert (RogerEbert.com), Bing Liu (Oscar-nominated Minding the Hole), and Michael Phillips (Author, Talker), this professional group will reveal their high movie picks of 2025 – afterward, keep for the reveal of the FACETS Viewers Prime Movie Picks and to have fun 50 years of FACETS.
Enter the Critic’s Lower 2025 on-line public sale and bid on experiences, eating places, theater, museums and extra! Bidding closes Thursday December 4, 2025 – 9PM. Proceeds help all FACETS applications for adults and youth. VIEW AUCTION
HIGHLIGHTS
- VIP “Meet the Critics” Pre-Reception Together with Bites & Cocktails
- Reside Consultants Unveil 2025’s Greatest Movie Picks
- Prosecco Toast honoring FACETS’ fiftieth Anniversary
- Reserved Seating for Sponsors and VIPs
- FACETS Viewers Prime Picks Reveal
- After-Social gathering with Dessert Bar, Raffle prizes, Reside DJ set by Chelliah, and Movie Trivia hosted by Raphael Jose Martinez
- Alternatives to Assist FACETS’ Mission and 50-year Legacy
Lee Shoquist – Movie Critic
Lee Shoquist is a member of the Chicago Movie Critics Affiliation and editor of ChicagoFilm.com. He leads a community of movie dialogue teams in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, and is a frequent speaker at cultural and humanities organizations together with Aspects, the Girls’s Athletic Membership, The Fortnightly of Chicago, Michigan Shores Membership, Lake Shore Nation Membership, The Cliff Dwellers, the On line casino Membership, Google Headquarters and Cinema Chicago. His work examines creative intent, social resonance and cinema’s place in up to date tradition.
Chaz Ebert – RogerEbert.com
Chaz Ebert is an energetic producer of tv and films, and the CEO of Ebert digital LLC—writer of the preeminent film evaluation website, Rogerebert.com. For 24 years, she shared a life with Pulitzer-prize winner, Roger Ebert. Of their work to foster empathy by means of cinema and across the globe, they established the Ebertfest Movie Pageant and the Roger Ebert Middle for Movie Research on the College of Illinois. She is the creator of the best-selling ebook It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity By means of Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness.
Bing Liu – Director
Bing Liu is the director of Preparation for the Subsequent Life and Minding the Hole, which was nominated for Greatest Characteristic Documentary on the 2019 Academy Awards, an Unbiased Spirit Award, an Emmy and received a Sundance Particular Jury and Peabody Award. He was a phase director on Starz’ AMERICA TO ME and co-directed his second characteristic documentary All These Sons, which received Greatest Cinematography on the 2021 Tribeca Movie Pageant and the Maysles Award on the Denver Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Michael Phillips – Author, Talker
Earlier than becoming a member of the Chicago Tribune in 2002 as drama critic, Michael Phillips labored as theater critic of the Los Angeles Instances, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Dallas Instances-Herald. His work in different mediums contains co-hosting the long-running syndicated collection “On the Motion pictures”; on-air host for Turner Traditional Motion pictures; and appearances on the Chicago podcast “Filmspotting”. Michael has taught arts journalism for DePaul College, Columbia School, the College of Chicago and College of Illinois.
