Membership in the Chicago Film Critics Association is restricted to professional film critics recognized by editors or producers as their commercial media outlets' official critical voices or staff authorities on the cinematic arts and whose work has a Chicago presence.
To join, a critic must provide a letter written on company stationery and signed by a producer or editor attesting to the paid employment and official status of the critic. We also need samples of published or broadcast work or websites. Reviews should be full-length works in their respective media: interviews, gossip columns and capsule comments are not acceptable as critiques. Candidates must serve a minimum of six months in their current positions to qualify for membership, and must reside within the Chicago area, defined as Cook County, the collar counties and part of Northwest Indiana.
2024-25 Members
Sarah Knight Adamson
SarahsBackstagePass.com | Hollywood 360 Radio Network
Zbigniew Banas
WPNA-AM | WEUR-AM | Polish Daily News
Angelica Jade Bastien
New York Magazine / Vulture
Patrick Bromley
FThisMovie.com
Dave Canfield
Screen Anarchy | MindFrame(s)
Erik Childress
Movie Madness | Rotten Tomatoes | Business First AM | The Friendship Dilemma
Matt Cipolla
The Film Stage | The Spool
Deirdre Crimmins
Freelance
Robert Daniels
RogerEbert.com
Cody Dericks
Next Best Picture
Nick Digilio
The Nick D Podcast | The Radio Misfits Podcast Network
Andrew Alexander Dowd
Freelance
Mark Dujsik
MarkReviewsMovies.com | Roger & Me
Chaz Ebert
RogerEbert.com
Toussaint Egan
Polygon
Matt Fagerholm
RogerEbert.com
Isaac Feldberg
RogerEbert.com
David J. Fowlie
Keeping It Reel
Marya E. Gates
RogerEbert.com
Dann Gire
Daily Herald
Daniel Gorman
In Review Online
Adam Kempenaar
Filmspotting / WBEZ
Robert Kojder
Flickering Myth
Chuck Koplinski
CBS 58 | Reel Talk with Chuck & Pam | The Illinois Times | The Illinois Gazette
Jim Laczkowski
Director's Club | 5 Years Substack
Andrew Lapin
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | NPR
Josh Larsen
Think Christian | Filmspotting
Zachary Lee
Freelance
Sarah Marrs
Lainey Gossip
Patrick McDonald
HollywoodChicago.com | WGBR-FM | WSSR-FM
Marianna Neal
Impression Blend
Jacob Oller
Paste Magazine | The A.V. Club
Erika S. Olson
Freelance
Matt Pais
MattPais.com
B. Panther
Paste Magazine
Keith Phipps
Freelance | The Reveal | Vulture | The Next Picture Show | GQ | The Ringer | TV Guide
Michael Poulos
Journal & Topics Newspapers
Pamela Powell
The Daily Journal | Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam
Steven Prokopy
Third Coast Review | Movie Madness
Alejandro Riera
New Culture Bodega
Katherine L. Rife
Indiewire | IGN | AV Club | Daily Beast | Vulture
Tasha Robinson
Polygon
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times | ABC-TV | Universal Press Syndicate
Lee Shoquist
ChicagoFilm.com
Caroline Siede
Girl Culture | Freelance
Ian Simmons
Kicking the Seat
Alissa Simon
Variety | Facets Multimedia
Peter Sobczynski
RogerEbert.com | The Spool | Auteurist Class | Movie Madness
Collin Souter
RogerEbert.com | CollinSouter.com | Christmas Movies Actually
Brian Tallerico
RogerEbert.com
Scott Tobias
The Reveal | The Next Picture Show
Lisa Trifone
Third Coast Review
Michael Walters
HollywoodChicago.com
Sarah Welch-Larson
Bright Wall/Dark Room | Seeing & Believing
Clint Worthington
Consequence of Sound | The Spool