The passive aggression between them is HILARIOUS.

Renting in a video store. Those were good times.

these two are hilarious. what great chemistry. "well, my list doesn't have any hidden agendas, Roger..." 😂

I loved Who Framed Roger Rabbit.  33 years later it’s still good.

I watched their show religiously when it was on, I LOVE them both.... SO sad that they are gone  😪  , may they rest in Peace

“This was so recently, the cars are still on the road.” Great observation.

Midnight Run is an exceptional film. See it if you haven't.

Running on Empty was the greatest; I'm glad that Roger made mention of it.

I miss them , their arguing and this theme song.

What I love about these "top ten" lists is the number of films still shown today and the number you have never heard of.  Films that were "all the rage" at the time (Accidental Tourist for example).

Oh my God... the static at the beginning of this video alone was nostalgic... and the tracking, oh my God...

I love how Gene loved Bull Durham. It's probably my favorite film of 1988

Man, "Rain Man" won Best Picture that year and was on neither critic's top 10 list.

I've watch a million films and when I watch Siskel and Ebert make these lists it makes me feel like I haven't seen anyrhibg at all.

Mississippi Burning 🔥 powerful film.

On Gene's runners-up list for 1988 were "Talk Radio," "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam," "Rain Man," "Mississippi Burning," (which topped Roger's list) "Au Revoir Les Enfants," "A World Apart," "Wings of Desire," (#7 on Roger's list) "A Fish Called Wanda," (#6 on Roger's list) "Clean & Sober," "Running on Empty," "Salaam Bombay," (#5 on Roger's list) "Things Change," "A Cry in the Dark" and "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!".

Gene recalled that 1988 was an "out-of-focus" year for Hollywood, which made it hard to find trends that distinguished it from any other year. The big story, he noted, surrounded the controversy of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ"; he repeated the statement that anyone who thought it was "blasphemous" probably didn't see the film. He noted that the female-centric films "Working Girl", "The Accused" and "A Cry in the Dark" were popular among critics but not quite as hot with audiences. [Please observe that Gene was reading early reports of the box office totals for the film "Working Girl" at the time that the top-10 list for 1988 was compiled. That film, in its first weeks, wasn't a big hit, probably because its subject matter was and is a turn-off to Christmastime audiences; only in February of 1989 did that film begin to turn a profit.]

Gene felt that it was a year in which "important directors had varied success", with Woody Allen's "Another Woman" making Gene concerned about the director-actor's growing isolation from the audience, Jonathan Demme's "Married to the Mob" plunging him straight into the commercial market, Mike Nichols coming back with "Working Girl" after bombing with "Biloxi Blues" (which he and Roger panned), and Martin Scorsese making "a vigorous comeback" with "The Last Temptation of Christ" after making the decidedly more commercial "Color of Money" two years before.

Gene also noted that 1988 was the year home video profits superseded theatrical revenue for the first time, and had become economically pioneering with the $19.98 post-rebate pricing of the long-awaited video arrival of "E.T." (MCA Home Video #77021); he also noted that, with "the proper promotional push", Laserdiscs (which he and Roger championed) may become equally as popular as VHS.

(SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 25, 1988)

Geena Davis won the oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist

I was 18 in 1988, my two favorite road trip movies: Rain Main and Midnight Run!

Ebert's hand movements are funny.

When they argue like an old married couple it’s just smooch! 💋 chefs kiss! 😂