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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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weekend watchlist: a prophetic dystopia (that is also rather comforting)

Tue, May 17, 2022
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Plus iconic performances from Jessica Chastain and Bruce Willis. (First published April 15th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat

Sun, Mar 06, 2022
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No snark, no spandex pantomime spectacle. Just noir mystery, Pattinson’s sad recluse a detective in a cesspit of corruption. Relentlessly grim, all darkness and despair, not escapist but of our time.

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curated: “Arctic thriller’s film crew struggled to find true frozen waste”

Sun, Aug 01, 2021
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Soon we will see ice and snow only if it is CGI’d into science fiction movies, or ones with historical settings.

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Artemis Fowl movie review: falls foul of itself

Sun, Jun 14, 2020
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A disaster of a kids’ fantasy caper; feels like it’s making up the plot as it goes. A mishmash of manufactured wonder: characters barely sketched, action seemingly setting up future DisneyWorld rides.

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The Gentlemen movie review: sufficiently advanced crime

Thu, Jan 16, 2020
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Guy Ritchie ups his game on his signature subgenre with a hilariously sublime crime comedy that acts as mirror on the legit world and oozes with crackling cynicism about culture and politics as well.

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Dumbo (2019) movie review: you will not believe an elephant can fly

Wed, Mar 27, 2019
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The most soulless of the live-action Disney remakes yet, weighted down by too many blah characters, too much convoluted plot, unconvincing CGI, and a message that doesn’t say what it thinks it does.

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Widows movie review: the women left to clean up men’s messes (LFF 2018)

Fri, Nov 09, 2018
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A heist movie that is gripping and badass, elegant and assured. You could ignore all the social-justice-warrior stuff and just enjoy this as a popcorn thriller. But what makes this so special is how it reexamines the genre’s clichés.

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