Just when Roma looked unstoppable... One day after Alfonso Cuarón's passion project swept six different critics groups honors, the actual Critics' Choice Awards flipped the script. Fueled by a stellar actress trio and a deep bench of craft achievements, The Favourite led the 24th annual Critics' Choice slate with 14 nominations including Best Picture. Marvel's [...]
It's difficult to remember the last time one movie dominated an awards season like Roma suddenly has. After an initial slate of critics group picked one different "Best Film" after another, Netflix's big Oscar contender from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men) has become an absolute juggernaut in the span of one day. When the San Francisco [...]
December 9 was a big day for Roma, capped by a Best Picture win from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was a clean sweep for the personal passion project from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón. His Spanish-language film from Mexico (and distributed by Netflix) went 5-for-5, winning the Best Film awards from the Chicago, [...]
Roma is crossing all borders now. The Toronto Film Critics Association became the latest group of critics to name Roma the Best Film of 2018. They join their colleagues from New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Alfonso Cuarón was also name Best Director for his passion project. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), and Regina King [...]
Now we're finally starting to see a trend. The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle became the third critics group of 2018 to name Alfonso Cuaron's Roma the year's Best Film, joining New York and Chicago. It also won Best Foreign Language Film (it's set in Mexico). But then for director Philly zagged, naming Barry Jenkins the best helmer [...]
The two films that appear to be the collective critical favorites this year are Roma and First Reformed, in that order. Even with the diversity of Best Film choices so far in the early critics groups, the Chicago Film Critics Association joined their New York colleagues in naming Roma the Best Film of 2018; it won 5 [...]
**** out of **** Rated R / TV-MA (for violence, disturbing images, male full frontal nudity, and language) Released: December 14, 2018 Runtime: 135 minutes Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Verónica García, Fernando Grediaga Streaming on Netflix, beginning December 14 (Viewer Discretion note: an early scene contains extended [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=hA6hldpSTF8 Everything about this trailer is exactly what leaves me so "meh" about most of the MCU: it's the most generic form of 21st Century blockbuster filmmaking (which is likely why it's such a huge success). Case in point: did we really need to wait this long, with this much secrecy and hype, to finally [...]
This Oscar race is all over the place. No clear front runner emerged when the nominations for the 76th Golden Globe Awards were announced. Of the films that led the Globe pack, only one dominated across most eligible categories. Surprise snubs popped up throughout (or didn't, as the case may be), plus there was the [...]
The American Film Institute - known to most as the org that broadcast Top 100 Movie list specials at the turn of the century - announced their 19th Annual AFI Awards, which includes a Top 10 List for the year's best movies. It doesn't name a single movie for Best Film of the Year; it simply [...]