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The Fall Guy movie review: stunt dribble

Mon, May 06, 2024
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This mess isn’t as clever as it thinks it is, and wastes the small charms of the delicious chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Feels like they shot a dashed-off first draft of the script.

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my picks for tonight’s 96th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2023’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 11, 2024
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I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is a little worse than how I did last year but better than the year before. So about par for the course for me.

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OFCS 2023 awards nominees announced (updated with winners)

Tue, Jan 23, 2024
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Oppenheimer takes eight awards, Barbie four…

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AWFJ 2023 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 04, 2024
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The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Barbie are the big winners.

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First Man movie review: over the moon

Tue, Oct 09, 2018
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Damian Chazelle finds a dreamlike reverie amidst rocket-powered mechanical brawn. As wonderfully, nerve-wrackingly exhausting as it is movingly intimate.

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Blade Runner 2049 movie review: a rickety retro replicant

Mon, Oct 09, 2017
141 comments

Visually, this dying future world is immersively hellish. Intellectually, though, its ideas haven’t kept up with the rapidly evolving science-fictional conversation.

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curated: Ryan Gosling is correctly upset about one aspect of ‘Avatar’

Mon, Oct 02, 2017
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From Saturday Night Live…

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my picks for tonight’s 89th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2016’s films)

Mon, Feb 27, 2017
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Now updated with winners…

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La La Land movie review: city of stars, shining just for us

Fri, Jan 13, 2017
18 comments

A marvel. Funny and exuberant and bittersweet and cliché-busting and unexpected as hell. We are going to need more movies like this one.

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OFCS 2016 awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 03, 2017
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Moonlight wins big…

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