Chris Schleicher

1. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT - dir. Jafar Panahi

2. EEPHUS - dir. Carson Lund

3. HAMNET - dir. Chloé Zhao

4. PETER HUJAR'S DAY - dir. Ira Sachs

5. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

6. NOUVELLE VAGUE - dir. Richard Linklater

7. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE - dir. Albert Serra

8. THE SECRET AGENT - dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

9. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES - dir. Jia Zhangke

10. THE MASTERMIND - dir. Kelly Reichardt

It's Oscars weekend! Which means it's time to drop my top 10 films of 2025, something I only do after seeing every movie nominated in every category (forgive me, I'm ill). This year I saw 108 features released in 2025. These were my faves. If I left off your fave, choose to believe it was #11.

Replacing gay guy music video night with gay guy Grand Prix night

Thank you so much for reading! This Olympics was so much better on the joy scale!

Alysa Liu Just Changed Figure Skating Forever In a sport that can be scary and stressful, she proved it doesn’t have to be that way.

Last Olympics I was so done with figure skating but Alysa Liu has made me fall in love with the sport again 🥹
Read my thoughts over at Slate! slate.com/culture/2026...

Alysa Liu Is So Mentally Healthy It’s Terrifying When she says she's skating just to enjoy herself, I actually believe her.

Ladies short program had thrills and heartbreak and Alysa Liu is now my mental health role model slate.com/culture/2026...

The Figure Skating Curse at These Olympics Is Finally Over All thanks to Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara.

The pairs free skate was so good and I got to hear the score to Gladiator TWICE! Read my thoughts over at Slate! slate.com/culture/2026...

I Would Like to Request Funding to Study Pairs Figure Skaters’ Brains They are American Ninja Warriors on ice.

New piece is live! Pairs short program lifted me out of my post-Malinin blues! slate.com/culture/2026...

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Hoping that the women’s free skate is a much more joyful occasion. 💜

I’m Still Trying to Process Ilia Malinin’s Olympic Meltdown The sadness of watching the Quad God fall apart.

New piece up! The unthinkable happened! Nothing is certain! I may never live this down!

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How it feels writing about my own sport

Current mood re: my own sports writing

I'm now learning that there's such a thing as "jinxing" something. New piece coming tonight after I wipe all this egg off my face.

This is the FINAL time I will explain the difference between ice dance and pairs. Ice dancers have wider, U-shaped snouts, while pair skater snouts are more pointed and V-shaped. Pair skaters prefer saltwater habitats, while ice dancers inhabit freshwater marshes and lakes.

The Big Upset in Ice Dancing Shows Why the Sport Is So Enticing The team that triumphed showed what the art of the sport really is.

Finally worked up the courage to write a piece about ice dance even though I am but a simpled minded pair skater: slate.com/culture/2026...

As a Figure Skating Expert, It Is My Responsibility to Tell You That Ilia Malinin is Unbeatable When the Quad God wins gold, remember I told you so.

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Decided to be extra bold with my predictions after the short program!

The U.S. Figure Skating Team Has a Chance for an All-Time Great Olympics The U.S. figure skating team has a chance for an all-time great Olympics.

I’m covering figure skating for Slate during the Milan Olympics! Check it out and take a peek inside my brain, which has surely been damaged by Zamboni fumes. slate.com/culture/2026...

Need more stories about celebrities who met a fortune teller as a child and were given a haunting prediction that didn’t come true in the slightest.

I’ll never stop. The things they said about disco in that film!

is spending time with a valued friend lovebombing