Every spring, Hollywood’s cream of the crop gathers together in one long-winded televised pageant of self-congratulation to celebrate the greatest cinematic achievements of the year. The red carpet is rolled out, tear-jerking acceptance speeches are given, and about two handfuls of eight-and-a-half-pound gold trophies are handed out. And though for almost a century now the […]
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All 11 Denis Villeneuve Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Though he’s risen to become one of Hollywood’s premiere filmmakers, Denis Villeneuve’s keen sense of epic scale didn’t come fully formed. Long before he was trusted with astronomical budgets and stacked ensembles, the Quebec-born director learned his trade churning out small indie fare back in his native Canada. It was only after he’d leveraged the […]
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10 Great Thriller Movies Favored By Yorgos Lanthimos
There are only a small handful of contemporary filmmakers whose work can rival the buzz and anticipation that a new Yorgos Lanthimos movie generates around the globe. After bursting onto the scene with “Dogtooth” 15 years ago, the Greek filmmaker has established himself as a singular presence in world cinema and one in a select […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Movies of 2023
2023 was the year of “Barbenheimer”, an unlikely double-feature showdown that caught on as a social media craze and dominated multiplexes last summer to become the biggest theater-going experience in recent memory. Last year also saw the return of veteran household names in Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Todd Haynes, and Hayao Miyazaki. And […]
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The 10 Best Thriller Movies of 2023
Now that 2023 is officially in the books, we present you with the absolute best of the best the thriller genre had to offer over the past 12 months. Amidst prolonged strikes and untimely production delays, 2023 wasn’t exactly a banner year for thriller movies, although the genre remained a steadforce at the multiplex, treating […]
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10 Best Picture Nominees From 2023 Ranked From Worst To Best
The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced on January 23, with Christopher Nolan’s WWII biopic “Oppenheimer” heading into the final stretch of the Oscar race as the assumed Best Picture frontrunner with very little sign of it slowing down over the next six weeks or so. The star-studded historical epic leads this year’s […]