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All Quiet on the Western Front

the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2022’s films) have been announced

Tue, Jan 24, 2023
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Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with 11 nominations. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on March 13th.

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OFCS 2022 awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 24, 2023
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Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with six wins; The Banshees of Inisherin takes fours awards. Twelve films overall earned awards.

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AWFJ 2022 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 17, 2023
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The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Women Talking tie for the most awards, at four apiece.

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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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question of the day: What movies best honor the work and sacrifices of soldiers?

Fri, Nov 11, 2011
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This can be a toughie, because matters of war are always laden with political and moral issues apart from the actual work soldiers do… and often do against their own principals.

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Robert Pattinson, descendant of Dracula; Daniel Radcliffe heads to the Western Front; Weird Al to take on Lady Gaga?: more

Sun, Jun 27, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…

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All Quiet on the Western Front (review)

Wed, Jan 13, 1999
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From a contemporary point of view, All Quiet on the Western Front is more ironic than its makers could have intended. Its audience is now as toughened as Paul became, mostly because his War to End All Wars didn’t.

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