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• The 95th Academy Awards: Final Predictions and Preferences

  By Christian DiMartino So the 95th Academy Awards are tonight and… hmm. So this could be a really interesting set of winners, or it could be boring. It’s interesting in that, for the first time in many years, there appears to actually be multiple races. Often times it’s assumed someone will win early into the…

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  March 12, 2023

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  aftersun, all quiet on the western front, ana de armas, andrea riseborough, angela bassett, austin butler, avatar the way of water, barry keoghan, bill nighy, black panther wakanda forever, blonde, brendan fraser, brendan gleeson, brian tyree henry, cate blanchett, causeway, christian dimartino, colin farrell, elvis, everything everywhere all at once, film, films, glass onion a knives out mystery, hong chau, jamie lee curtis, judd hirsch, ke huy quan, kerry condon, living, movie, movies, oscars, paul mescal, stephanie hsu, tar, the banshees of inisherin, the fabelmans, the whale, to leslie, top gun maverick, triangle of sadness, women talking, wordpress

• The Best Movies of 2022 (and the Five Worst)

  By Christian DiMartino One thing I like about doing a year in review thingy is that it serves as a document of where my taste was at this point in time. I won’t lie though: often times I place a movie in my top spot, and some time down the road, my opinion changes. Not…

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  March 4, 2023

  Rankings

  aftersun, ambulance, ana de armas, andrew dominik, austin butler, avatar the way of water, babylon, barbarian, baz luhrmann, black adam, blonde, bodies bodies bodies, cate blanchett, charlotte wells, christian dimartino, colin farrell, damien chazelle, daniel kaluuya, dwayne johnson, elvis, everything everywhere all at once, film, films, florian zeller, glass onion a knives out mystery, guillermo del toro, guillermo del toros pinocchio, hugh jackman, james cameron, jared leto, jaume collett serra, jordan peele, joseph kosinski, judd apatow, karen gillian, margot robbie, martin mcdonagh, michelle williams, moonage daydream, morbius, movie, movies, nope, paul mescal, pearl, sam worthington, steven spielberg, tar, the banshees of inisherin, the batman, the bubble, the fabelmans, the menu, the northman, the son, todd field, tom cruise, top gun maverick, wordpress, x

• Review: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

  By Christian DiMartino We have gotten three Pinocchio adaptations over the course of two years. Why? I don’t know, I guess some filmmakers just want to take a stab at it. One was a live-action, Italian version released in 2020; the technical aspects were pretty remarkable, but the movie was nightmare fuel. The second Pinocchio…

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  November 26, 2022

  Reviews

  cate blanchett, christian dimartino, christoph waltz, david bradley, ewan mcgregor, film, films, gabriel mann, guillermo del toro, guillermo del toros pinocchio, john turturro, movie, movies, pinocchio, ron perlman, tilda swinton, wordpress

• Review: TÁR

  By Christian DiMartino Just a year ago, I fell in love all over again with the work of three time Academy Award nominee Todd Field. The trouble is, he only had two movies: In the Bedroom and Little Children, two quiet, haunting, brilliant domestic dramas. I first saw Little Children about 12 years ago, so…

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  October 28, 2022

  Reviews

  cate blanchett, christian dimartino, film, films, mark strong, movie, movies, nina hoss, noemie merlant, tar, todd field, wordpress

• My Most Anticipated Movies for the Rest of the Year

  

  By Christian DiMartino The fall film festival schedules are starting to roll out, and… whew. This is a lot to take in. Paul Schrader just announced that his next movie, Master Gardener, will be at the New York Film Festival. I also just discovered that it will actually premiere at the Venice Film Festival the…

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  August 17, 2022

  Rankings

  amsterdam, angela bassett, avatar the way of water, black panther wakanda forever, brendan fraser, cate blanchett, christian bale, christian dimartino, colin farrell, dont worry darling, empire of light, film, films, florence pugh, mia goth, michelle williams, movie, movies, olivia colman, pearl, sam worthington, tar, the banshees of inisherin, the fabelmans, the whale, wordpress

• Review: Nightmare Alley

  

  Two time Academy Award winner Guillermo Del Toro returns to the big screen with Nightmare Alley, his first film since his Best Picture winning The Shape of Water back in 2017. Like that film, Nightmare Alley is a breathtakingly gorgeous visual feast across the board. Also like that film, I went into it with my…

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  December 23, 2021

  Reviews

  bradley cooper, cate blanchett, christian dimartino, clifton collins jr, david strathairn, film, films, guillermo del toro, mary steenburgen, movie, movies, nightmare alley, richard jenkins, ron perlman, rooney mara, tim blake nelson, toni collette, willem dafoe, wordpress

• Review: Don’t Look Up

  

  In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, you might remember Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow sang a Grammy-bait song called “We Gotta Do Something,” about saving the world and what not. That seems to be the message that Adam McKay (or, sorry, Academy Award winner Adam McKay, lord knows he wants that known)is selling with his new comedy, Don’t…

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  December 11, 2021

  Reviews

  adam mckay, ariana grande, cate blanchett, christian dimartino, don't look up, dont look up, film, films, himesh patel, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, kid cudi, leonardo dicaprio, mark rylance, melanie lynskey, meryl streep, movie, movies, ron perlman, timothee chalamet, tyler perry, wordpress

• Christian’s Christmas: Carol (2015)

  

  By Christian DiMartino The debate over what classifies a Christmas movie as a Christmas movie is one that will probably go on forever. There are people who claim that Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie. Well, while it may not have the Christmas spirit, it also features more of Christmas than It’s a Wonderful Life,…

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  December 8, 2020

  Christians Christmas

  Carol, cate blanchett, christian dimartino, christmas, film, films, kyle chandler, lgbtq, movie, movies, rooney mara, sarah paulson, Todd haynes, wordpress

• The Decade in Review- Part I: The Great, the Horrible, and so on

  By Christian DiMartino A lot can happen in a year. A lot can change in a year. So try 10 years, and thus, here I am delivering unto you, a decade in review. A lot has certainly changed for me in 10 years. Yet for this, I am of course here to focus on the movies…

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  December 30, 2019

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  adam sandler, best movies of the decade, birdman, black swan, cate blanchett, daniel day lewis, django unchained, first reformed, food fight, frances mcdormand, george clooney, gravity, her, inception, inside out, interstellar, j.k. simmons, jackie, leonardo dicaprio, life itself, melancholia, mother’s day, movies, natalie portman, once upon a time in hollywood, that’s my boy, the descendants, the florida project, the human centipede 3, the irishman, the last airbender, the master, the tree of life, toni collette, transformers, welcome to marwen, worst movies of the decade, yoga hosers

• Oscars 2016: The Final Predictions

  By Christian DiMartino The end is near… I start making my Oscar predictions fairly early, and I have to say: This year is a tough one to crack. Why? Simple: There were too many good movies. Things that once seemed like sure things (Steve Jobs) are out. And alas, it has come to the final…

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  January 13, 2016

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  alejandro g. inarritu, bridge of spies, brie larson, brooklyn, Carol, cate blanchett, eddie redmayne, george miller, inside out, johnny depp, leonardo dicaprio, mad max: fury road, matt damon, michael fassbender, ridley scott, room, spotlight, the big short, the martian, the revenant, Todd haynes, tom mccarthy