Best Picture
Will Win: Everything Everywhere All at Once
A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once is the likeliest winner, having swept the guilds’ top honors, including the Producers Guild’s, which is decided on a preferential ballot, and also won Critics Choice and Spirit Award prizes, among many others. But the Academy’s preferential ballot wouldn’t seem to favor such a polarizing film — many Academy members love it, but many others found it incomprehensible — so an upset could come from German-language All Quiet on the Western Front, which dominated at the BAFTA Awards (indicating strong European support) and would be Netflix’s first-ever winner in this category, or Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, a critical and commercial triumph that helped to revive theatrical moviegoing. — Scott Feinberg
Should Win: The Banshees of Inisherin
My heart beats strongest for this two-man civil war tragicomedy, which shows a new maturity and...
Will Win: Everything Everywhere All at Once
A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once is the likeliest winner, having swept the guilds’ top honors, including the Producers Guild’s, which is decided on a preferential ballot, and also won Critics Choice and Spirit Award prizes, among many others. But the Academy’s preferential ballot wouldn’t seem to favor such a polarizing film — many Academy members love it, but many others found it incomprehensible — so an upset could come from German-language All Quiet on the Western Front, which dominated at the BAFTA Awards (indicating strong European support) and would be Netflix’s first-ever winner in this category, or Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, a critical and commercial triumph that helped to revive theatrical moviegoing. — Scott Feinberg
Should Win: The Banshees of Inisherin
My heart beats strongest for this two-man civil war tragicomedy, which shows a new maturity and...
- 3/9/2023
- by Scott Feinberg and David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood Flashback: Michelle Williams Brought Marilyn Monroe Back to Life in ‘My Week With Marilyn’
Michelle Williams racked up her fifth Oscar nomination this year, for playing Mitzi Fabelman, a version of Steven Spielberg’s mother in his semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans. A decade ago, bringing screen legend Marilyn Monroe to life in My Week With Marilyn earned Williams her third nod.
The 2011 Simon Curtis biopic follows Monroe’s experience in London while making The Prince and the Showgirl with director and co-star Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). THR‘s David Rooney wrote in his review: “Michelle Williams gives a layered performance that goes beyond impersonation…[she] gets us on intimate terms with one of Hollywood’s most enduring and tragic icons…her work alone keeps the movie entertaining.”
Preparation for the role demanded intense research. “It’s lonely, lonely work,” Williams told THR in November 2011 of studying extensive footage of Monroe but shared how she discovered “Marilyn Monroe was a character she played, like a Groucho Marx...
The 2011 Simon Curtis biopic follows Monroe’s experience in London while making The Prince and the Showgirl with director and co-star Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). THR‘s David Rooney wrote in his review: “Michelle Williams gives a layered performance that goes beyond impersonation…[she] gets us on intimate terms with one of Hollywood’s most enduring and tragic icons…her work alone keeps the movie entertaining.”
Preparation for the role demanded intense research. “It’s lonely, lonely work,” Williams told THR in November 2011 of studying extensive footage of Monroe but shared how she discovered “Marilyn Monroe was a character she played, like a Groucho Marx...
- 3/8/2023
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Focus Features’ tearjerker “Spoiler Alert” is now open nationwide, and audiences everywhere are driving Kleenex stock through the roof. Based on TVLine founder Michael Ausiello‘s 2017 memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies,” the film is directed by Michael Showalter and it may or may not be the latest installment in the “Smurfs” movie series (you’ll have to watch it and decide for yourself). In all seriousness, “Spoiler Alert” details the ups and downs of Ausiello’s relationship with Kit Cowan, which tragically ends after Cowan passes away from neuroendocrine cancer.
“Spoiler Alert” reviews are pouring in at Rotten Tomatoes, where it currently has an 82 critics score and a 96 audience score. The acting duo of Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge are receiving unanimous praise for their roles as Ausiello and Cowan, respectively, with Odie Henderson (Boston Globe) raving that the two male leads “have fantastic chemistry together.” Parsons is a...
“Spoiler Alert” reviews are pouring in at Rotten Tomatoes, where it currently has an 82 critics score and a 96 audience score. The acting duo of Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge are receiving unanimous praise for their roles as Ausiello and Cowan, respectively, with Odie Henderson (Boston Globe) raving that the two male leads “have fantastic chemistry together.” Parsons is a...
- 12/16/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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Given that any critic’s views are by their very nature subjective, the lists that follow don’t claim to be definitive or even directive. They’re merely my personal favorites and those of my esteemed colleagues on the THR reviews team. If they reflect, clash with or challenge your own tastes and opinions, that’s a good thing; if they inspire you to seek out a title you haven’t yet had time for, or might not even have been aware of, even better. Either way, this was a solid year for movies, albeit one that for me came to an underwhelming close.
While theatrical grosses remain in post-covid recovery mode, the studio blockbuster reasserted itself with bright spots on the box office landscape including Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, The Batman and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,...
Given that any critic’s views are by their very nature subjective, the lists that follow don’t claim to be definitive or even directive. They’re merely my personal favorites and those of my esteemed colleagues on the THR reviews team. If they reflect, clash with or challenge your own tastes and opinions, that’s a good thing; if they inspire you to seek out a title you haven’t yet had time for, or might not even have been aware of, even better. Either way, this was a solid year for movies, albeit one that for me came to an underwhelming close.
While theatrical grosses remain in post-covid recovery mode, the studio blockbuster reasserted itself with bright spots on the box office landscape including Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, The Batman and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,...
- 12/16/2022
- by David Rooney, Jon Frosch, Lovia Gyarkye and Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In her review, Cate Marquis said The Banshees Of Inisherin “is an impressive piece of cinema on all levels.”
From acclaimed filmmaker Martin McDonagh comes the masterful tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin. This immersive tale of friendship and folly has delighted cinemagoers and been celebrated by critics as “simply perfect” and “sweepingly cinematic”. The film is Certified-Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and arrives on Digital December 13 and Blu-ray and DVD on December 20, with never-before-seen bonus content featuring actors Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and director-writer Martin McDonagh.
The film made its World Premiere in September to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award for McDonagh and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Farrell. It went on to release theatrically in October, earning the highest opening per screen average of the fall.
From director-writer Martin McDonagh comes a unique film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
From acclaimed filmmaker Martin McDonagh comes the masterful tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin. This immersive tale of friendship and folly has delighted cinemagoers and been celebrated by critics as “simply perfect” and “sweepingly cinematic”. The film is Certified-Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and arrives on Digital December 13 and Blu-ray and DVD on December 20, with never-before-seen bonus content featuring actors Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and director-writer Martin McDonagh.
The film made its World Premiere in September to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award for McDonagh and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Farrell. It went on to release theatrically in October, earning the highest opening per screen average of the fall.
From director-writer Martin McDonagh comes a unique film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
- 12/15/2022
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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Austin Butler has a little less conversation and a little more mask-wearing in the first promo for his Saturday Night Live hosting debut.
The Elvis star, who continues to play a key part in this year’s awards season, takes center stage at Studio 8H in the promotional footage released ahead of his Dec. 17 holiday episode, which is also the NBC comedy series’ final new installment of 2022. Lizzo is the night’s musical guest and will be stepping in for previously announced performers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who need to skip due to illness.
Butler’s SNL spot shows the actor slowly making his way through the historic studio, looking dapper as ever with his hair perfectly coiffed. “Here we go,” Butler confidently tells himself.
However, things quickly go awry as the host learns he needs to don a spooky green mask and...
Austin Butler has a little less conversation and a little more mask-wearing in the first promo for his Saturday Night Live hosting debut.
The Elvis star, who continues to play a key part in this year’s awards season, takes center stage at Studio 8H in the promotional footage released ahead of his Dec. 17 holiday episode, which is also the NBC comedy series’ final new installment of 2022. Lizzo is the night’s musical guest and will be stepping in for previously announced performers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who need to skip due to illness.
Butler’s SNL spot shows the actor slowly making his way through the historic studio, looking dapper as ever with his hair perfectly coiffed. “Here we go,” Butler confidently tells himself.
However, things quickly go awry as the host learns he needs to don a spooky green mask and...
- 12/15/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Daniel Craig has played James Bond long enough that the MI6 agent has battled supervillains and ne’er-do-wells across four presidential administrations. But all good things must come to an end, and so the long-delayed “No Time to Die” is officially Craig’s swan song in the 007 role, coming 15 years after he first picked up the superagent’s moniker.
“The Craig-starring saga has played by its own rules from the start,” David Ehlrich wrote in his review of “No Time to Die” for Indiewire, noting the film tells “a story about the need to leave certain things behind.”
“It’s the modern spy movie equivalent of ‘The Last Jedi,’ as the universe tells James Bond that he has no choice but to let the past die — to kill it if he has to — and dares Craig to pull the trigger,” Ehrlich wrote. “The actor barely even blinks. Instead, he limps,...
“The Craig-starring saga has played by its own rules from the start,” David Ehlrich wrote in his review of “No Time to Die” for Indiewire, noting the film tells “a story about the need to leave certain things behind.”
“It’s the modern spy movie equivalent of ‘The Last Jedi,’ as the universe tells James Bond that he has no choice but to let the past die — to kill it if he has to — and dares Craig to pull the trigger,” Ehrlich wrote. “The actor barely even blinks. Instead, he limps,...
- 9/29/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
It’s good to have superhero movies back. The first reviews for Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot’s “Wonder Woman 1984” are in, and while some critics are calling it “cheesy,” others are heralding the blockbuster as a welcome distraction in a depressing year.
Most critics agreed that, like the original “Wonder Woman” from 2017, the new film balances corny heroics and fish-out-of-water comedy with busy action sequences that sometimes detract from the more human charms of Gadot’s titular character.
“With ‘Wonder Woman 1984,’ the highly anticipated follow-up to Jenkins’ mega-hit, the filmmaker digs her heels even further into that promise of cheesy superhero goodness, to the point of it being a potential health hazard,” Hoai-Tran Bui wrote in /Film. “But the cartoonishly optimistic charms of “Wonder Woman 1984’ feel like a direct rebuke of the current political and cultural landscape in a way that is unquestionably ham-fisted, but is...
Most critics agreed that, like the original “Wonder Woman” from 2017, the new film balances corny heroics and fish-out-of-water comedy with busy action sequences that sometimes detract from the more human charms of Gadot’s titular character.
“With ‘Wonder Woman 1984,’ the highly anticipated follow-up to Jenkins’ mega-hit, the filmmaker digs her heels even further into that promise of cheesy superhero goodness, to the point of it being a potential health hazard,” Hoai-Tran Bui wrote in /Film. “But the cartoonishly optimistic charms of “Wonder Woman 1984’ feel like a direct rebuke of the current political and cultural landscape in a way that is unquestionably ham-fisted, but is...
- 12/15/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Searchlight Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for Chloé Zhao’s awards hopeful Nomadland, starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand.
In what The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney calls “a powerful character study of a different kind of freedom fighter,” Nomadland follows Fern (McDormand), a widow who leaves her small town to explore life outside of conventional society.
The trailer opens to Fern at a camping ground, one of her many stops along her nomadic journey. Her van — the vehicle that she calls home — can be seen in the distance, followed by scenic shots of Fern driving through the American West.
When a ...
In what The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney calls “a powerful character study of a different kind of freedom fighter,” Nomadland follows Fern (McDormand), a widow who leaves her small town to explore life outside of conventional society.
The trailer opens to Fern at a camping ground, one of her many stops along her nomadic journey. Her van — the vehicle that she calls home — can be seen in the distance, followed by scenic shots of Fern driving through the American West.
When a ...
- 12/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Searchlight Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for Chloé Zhao’s awards hopeful Nomadland, starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand.
In what The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney calls “a powerful character study of a different kind of freedom fighter,” Nomadland follows Fern (McDormand), a widow who leaves her small town to explore life outside of conventional society.
The trailer opens to Fern at a camping ground, one of her many stops along her nomadic journey. Her van — the vehicle that she calls home — can be seen in the distance, followed by scenic shots of Fern driving through the American West.
When a ...
In what The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney calls “a powerful character study of a different kind of freedom fighter,” Nomadland follows Fern (McDormand), a widow who leaves her small town to explore life outside of conventional society.
The trailer opens to Fern at a camping ground, one of her many stops along her nomadic journey. Her van — the vehicle that she calls home — can be seen in the distance, followed by scenic shots of Fern driving through the American West.
When a ...
- 12/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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