Ignatiy Igorevich Vishnevetsky (/ɪɡˈnɑːti ˌvɪʃnəˈvɛtski/;[1] Russian: Игнатий Игоревич Вишневецкий; born September 5, 1986)[2] is a Russian-American film critic, essayist, and columnist.
[3][4][5] Vishnevetsky co-hosted Roger Ebert Presents: At the Movies, a nationally syndicated film criticism television show,[6] with Christy Lemire.
[13][14] He was involved in a screening space called North Western Avenue, whose participants later co-founded the film website Cine-File.info, to which Vishnevetsky contributed.
[18] In the February 11, 2011, episode of Ebert Presents At the Movies, Vishnevetsky stated that the greatest influence on his work as a critic was Jean-Luc Godard's video project Histoire(s) du cinéma.
[19] In a blog post presented as an "appendix" to the episode, he revealed that he writes the majority of his film criticism by hand and will sometimes "edit together" essays out of notes and parts of unpublished texts.
[20] Vishnevetsky participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed ten of his favorite films as follows: Blow Out, Days of Being Wild, Dead or Alive 2: Birds, Hotel America, The Lady from Shanghai, Modern Romance, Mysteries of Lisbon, Red Viburnum, RoboCop, and Some Came Running.