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What was coasting along to be a fairly safe and predictable awards season that pitted the big critical players of Sinners  and One Battle After Another against one another at the top of the perch for the technical and biggest prizes of the lot. Besides the top acting categories, Hamnet and Marty Supreme are expected to pick up potential crumbs not devoured by the other two. But as things looked to be settled upon who was guaranteed winners in their respective categories in a

It's the final countdown...but before we do that, here's a reminder of the criteria and blah blah blah in determining the list outside of...

We’re back. Another annual list. But before we get into the nitty-gritty of it all, there are some silly list rules  I have invented for...

Holy hell. This Oscar season has been wild. It’s been getting more and more unpredictable over the years, with many voting bodies turning...

“Is that it?” My gut asked this the moment The Brutalist ended following a jarring epilogue. And for the most part, I am still left...

We're back at it with bold musicals, queer desire and a nightmarish Copenhagen. The End (2024) Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Genre/s:...

Mismatched grieving, hypothetical futures, confrontations, pursuing perfection and jazz in a coup d'etat. This week I watched... A Real...

Strippers and Russian Oligarchs, the good and bad Harmony Korines, a Cillian Murphy mastersclass, the lasting effects of colonialism and...

A collection of vignettes, Angelina Jolie sings opera, confronting tragedy in Canada, and a classic from Franco-era Spain. Here's what I...

Told through nine vignettes over the course of a day in Tehran, Terrestrial Verses follows ordinary citizens navigating the increasingly...

So here's a new thing I'm doing that will summarise the highlights, lowlights and well, midlights of my movie-watching weeks. Instead of...

Two sister missionaries (played by ex-Mormons Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) find themselves knocking on the wrong door when the...

Upon her 40th birthday, writer/director Coralie Fargeat declared that her life was over. “I’m not going to be interesting anymore. No one...

It’s impossible to predict the rhythm and anarchic, punk rock nature of a Radu Jude film. They’re often strung together by common themes...

2023 was an outstanding year for films. Not only were we treated to pure quality from all over the place, but the cinematic experience...

Before we get back into it, here's a reminder of the criteria with which how films qualified etc. Here's 50-26... I watched 277 films...

Holy crap what a year for movies. 2023 was absolutely stacked, making it the best, at least in my opinion, film year since 2019. Now,...

Just where do you start when talking about The Zone of Interest, the newest film by the far too elusive Jonathan Glazer (only his fourth...

Picture it: A John Wayne-type is protecting a picture-perfect blonde-haired, blue-eyed family on the prairie. Their caravan is surrounded...

Fate, destiny, providence. This is inyeon, a Korean philosphy. If strangers walk in the street and their clothes brush one another, it...