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This time the pompous bloat exceeds even my affinity for AGI's formal skill for me; it's a credit to the latter remaining high enough that the script doesn't sink this even lower. Most effective,...

Academy Awards (noms)

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front (Malte Grunert)
Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron and Jon Landau)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Graham Broadbent, Pete...

Not surprised to learn from the credit that this is adapted from a(n unpublished) book, as how the core story develops and various subplots come off a bit overstuffed onscreen feel like it would make...

All Quiet on the Western Front hits big with BAFTA with 14 noms (!), the highest since The King’s Speech.

BAFTA (noms)


Best Film


All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin

SAG (noms)

Film

Best Ensemble

Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

Golden Globes

Film

Best Motion Picture - Drama: The Fabelmans
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Actor...

https://youtu.be/5WfTEZJnv_8

Yup. Twice leading actress sweeps.

This season's other trifecta wins (several this year) are in film (TÁR), supporting actor (Ke Huy Quan, EEAAO), doc (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed), and...

Year-end snapshot.

1. In Front of Your Face
2. Decision to Leave
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. Aftersun
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Turning Red
7. The Fabelmans
8. TÁR

Top 20 First Watches for 2022:

1. Till We Meet Again (Borzage, 1944)
2. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren & Hammid, 1943)
3. The Train (Frankenheimer, 1963)
4. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)...

Final Top 20:

1. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
3. Her (2013)
4. Warrior (2011)
5. Jurassic Park (1993)
6. The Third Man (1949)
7. Gladiator (2000)
8....

Final for 2022:

1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Dana Stevens)
3. Wuthering Heights (Emily...

1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Dana Stevens)
3. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
4. Exhalation:...

FYC Best Supporting Actress: Lashana Lynch. I've always liked her presence in MCU/Bond films, but given a more meaty role here she effortlessly becomes a first-rate scene-stealer, just pure movie...

Golden Globes (noms)

Film

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
The Fabelmans
TÁR

The trajectory is so obvious I imagine one needn't to see X to know early where it's going, and narratively it's too underimagined whether as drama or as horror to counter that inevitability for me....

Is Blanchett going to sweep the critic trifecta again like Blue Jasmine?


Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)


Best Picture (tie): Everything Everywhere All at Once & TÁR

Best...

National Board of Review (NBR)

Best Film: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Actor: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh,...

Call for the Dead (John le Carré) - After reading The Little Drummer Girl as my first le Carré and really enjoying it earlier this year, I finally start his works at the beginning, which is much...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLtkt8BonwM

That slowed-down, somber version of "Take On Me" lol. Great trailer otherwise though.

First major critics group this year, New York Film Critics Circle. Blanchett sweep begins? Or can Yeoh pick up steam down the line? Quan seems most locked of the acting category at this point though....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfVYgWYaHmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3V5KDHRQvk

Kicking off the season.

Gotham Awards

Film

Best Feature: Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)

Best Documentary Feature: All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
Best...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5muQK7CuFtY