BAFTA nominations 2022
It’s a three-way slugfest between “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 21, 2023 | Award Season, BAFTA, Oscars
It’s a three-way slugfest between “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 31, 2022 | ASC, BAFTA, Best European Film, DGA, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, NSFC, NYFCC, Oscars, PGA, SAG, WGA
Here are the dates for the major events at AMPAS, five major guilds (DGA PGA WGA SAG ASC) and the five major critics groups (NBR, NYFCC, LAFCA, NSFC and the Spirits) from now until the closing of Award Season with the Oscars with the 12th of March.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Best European Film, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
“Aftersun” is unforgettable movie. Proustian, in that it is both a remembrance of things past and a search of lost time, it’s one of the best films of 2022.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, HBO Max, Historic Events, Hulu, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
Condon is breathtakingly good, capturing every scene she’s in with a mixture of common sense and sadness, but always with a drollness lurking in the background.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 13, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, TV / Streaming
Remember Yeoh in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? This is a similar tongue-in-cheek, highly physical, yet surprisingly, touching performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 11, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Historic Events, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
The 2023 Best Actress Oscar Goes To…Danielle Deadwyler in Till. And as she reaches the volta of her magnificent speech she does something extraordinary…
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 25, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Horror, My Favorites, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
I had no problem sitting through the movie’s bloated 180-minute running because, through all of this nothingness, five actors manage to make lasting impressions
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2022 | Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, My Favorites, New Releases, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best
As Charlie, an overweight teacher, Brendan Fraser gives a very sweet and appealing performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 16, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
He films one of his jock tormentors as a blond God-like figure – I swear, it reminded me of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 28, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Historic Events, New Releases, TV / Streaming
So, my advice is to watch this movie on your iPhone and fast-forward through everything except Morton and Ehle.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 18, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Best European Film, Comedy, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, LAFCA, New Releases, TV / Streaming
Ostlund’s trite and vulgar satire on the heartlessness of the monied classes is the most overhyped film of the year.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 4, 2022 | Award Season, BAFTA, Critic Awards, Documentary, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Historic Events, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, Queer Film/TV
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” ends up falling between two stools and deceives its audience in the process.
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