2022 National Board of Review Awards
“Top Gun: Maverick” triumphs with Best Film and Best Cinematography. “The Banshees of Inisherin” wins in three categories.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 9, 2022 | Award Season, National Board of Review
“Top Gun: Maverick” triumphs with Best Film and Best Cinematography. “The Banshees of Inisherin” wins in three categories.
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 | Aug 23, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, The Best of the Best, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Plaza’s performance is something to behold. All of that nervous energy is now bursting out in a performance that is always true and believable.
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 | Nov 26, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
The revelation is Pope. Those big, beautiful, expressive eyes speak volumes and question volumes. A gay man, you can feel his star presence.
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 | 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 1, 2022 | Award Season, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG
Terrified of standing outside of the groupthink and dreading the Hollywood equivalent of being burnt alive in a Florentine piazza…
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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