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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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The Suicide Squad movie review: primrose psychopaths

Tue, Aug 03, 2021
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Spanks the 2016 film and sends it off to the corner to think about what it did. This one is the definite article: Gory, grim, bleakly funny. Full of feverish, anarchic energy and exhausting cynicism.

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my picks for tonight’s 93rd Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2020’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Apr 26, 2021
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I correctly guessed 11 out of the 24 23 categories, which is slightly better than last year.

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OFCS 2020 awards winners announced

Fri, Jan 29, 2021
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And the winners are…

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AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 05, 2021
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AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Nov 16

Fri, Nov 16, 2018
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Nijla Mu’min writes and directs teen drama Jinn; Angela Shelton writes and directs boxing drama Heart, Baby!; more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Tue Nov 06

Sat, Nov 10, 2018
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Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, and Cynthia Erivo go a-heistin’; more…

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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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