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OFCS names The Godfather the best Oscar Best Picture ever

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
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The members of the Online Film Critics Society — of which I am one — have jointly ranked the 86 movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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New York Times critic AO Scott is all boo-hoo waaaa grrl power

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
16 comments

Do you imagine that anyone — any single person — will accuse Scott of dragging feminism into everything?

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film criticism is a sausage fest

Wed, Feb 26, 2014
4 comments

I wonder if anyone has ever said to any of all those male film critics that they made their readers understand feminism better!

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theater critic sees a few films, figures that’s basis enough to trash film critics

Sat, Feb 22, 2014
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You’d think that the sorry state of arts criticism would create a sort of camaraderie among those still lucky enough to be employed as critics…

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Baptist professor says Frozen’s Elsa is Satanic

Mon, Jan 27, 2014
207 comments

Because, of course, a woman who refuses to follow narrow rules about what makes a “good girl” is instantly transformed into an immoral she-beast.

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if watching movies feels like homework, you’re probably not a movie lover

Sat, Jan 25, 2014
11 comments

I can’t believe someone who gets paid to write about movies would say such a thing.

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there’s a certain movie opening in the US and Canada today that I’m embargoed from talking about…

Fri, Jan 17, 2014
12 comments

Appropriately, this certain movie is about a guy who cannot talk about certain aspects of his work, either.

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women at the Golden Globes = “too much estrogen”

Tue, Jan 14, 2014
6 comments

Marvel at the terror of a man seeing the dominance of his privilege challenged on unwitting display.

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Huffington Post has no shame

Mon, Jan 13, 2014
2 comments

Stuff like this is why I refer to the site as HuffPOS.

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is it The New York Times’ fault so many movies get released?

Sun, Jan 12, 2014
3 comments

Still, someone needs to be curating all these movies, finding the ones that are worth seeing and promoting them to movie lovers.

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