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The 9 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ ‘Beautiful Day,’ ’21 Bridges’ & More

February 18, 2020 2:29 pm

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spla...

Spirit Awards 2020: ‘The Farewell’ Wins Best Feature [Full Winners List]

Gregory Ellwood and Rafael Motamayor

February 8, 2020 4:53 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, News

The 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards were handed out in a ceremony Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica, Ca. Hosted for the second year in a row by Aubrey Plaza, who began the night with a hilarious yet poig...

Seven Perplexing Questions As Six Days Of Oscars Voting Begins

Gregory Ellwood

January 2, 2020 5:44 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Six days. That's it. Today, Thursday, January 2 through Tuesday, January, 7. Six full days for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to vote for the nominees for the 2020 Oscars. This ra...

Kimber Myers’ Top 10 Films Of 2019

Kimber Myers

December 31, 2019 1:07 pm

News

I am a movie crier. The ending of “Jojo Rabbit” had me alternating between hiccuping sobs and giggles with a similarly afflicted friend over just how much we were crying. I sniffled my way through the entirety ...

Barack Obama’s Best Films & TV Of 2019 Includes Some Sleeper Picks Like ‘Ash Is Purest White,’ ‘Diane,’ ‘Transit’ & More

Charles Barfield

December 30, 2019 10:46 am

News

Every year, I have a ton of Top 10s that fly across my desk. Many of our writers love to share their opinions on the greatest films of the past year. And yes, we publish quite a few, even if many of them share ...

Is ‘Little Women’ Making A Best Picture Comeback? [Contender Countdown]

Gregory Ellwood

December 27, 2019 7:27 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The opening day reviews have been rapturous and the early box office strong. From an awards perspective, that's exactly what Greta Gerwig's "Little Women" needed. In fact, its Oscar hopes may hinge on it. Th...

Martin Scorsese Tells Lulu Wang Not To Do Superhero Films

Rafael Motamayor

December 27, 2019 4:03 pm

News

Remember when we all spent every waking moment thinking of what old filmmakers think of superhero movies? Well, Martin Scorsese is back to talk about his mortal enemy: movies about people in spandex. READ MO...

Gregory Ellwood’s Top 10 Of 2019: ‘Parasite,’ ‘I Lost My Body,’ ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

Gregory Ellwood

December 24, 2019 11:59 pm

Awards Campaign, News

If my top 75 films of the decade list demonstrated anything it's that I'm a sucker for cinema that sticks with you. That's what made 2019 individually a hard year to pull a top 10 for. It's not that there wer...

Ryan Oliver’s Top 25 Films of 2019 [Video]

Ryan Oliver

December 23, 2019 9:44 am

News

Happy Holidays to you and yours. This season brings forth time-honored traditions of attempting to take it easy at work to spend time with loved ones, and compiling the year-end “Best Of” list and debate online...

Knives Out, Parasite & Euphoria Among 2020 ACE Eddie Awards Nominees

Gregory Ellwood

December 11, 2019 4:36 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The American Cinema Editors announced the nominees for the 2020 ACE Awards and even with two categories there were a number of surprises. On the Feature Film - Comedy side "Knives Out," "Dolemite is My Name," ...

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