Oscar Nominees

Sep 23
5 min

Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★

The film resonates today, as one sees masses of Bosnians stranded outside and pressing against the fences of the UN base.

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Apr 21
4 min

Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★

The film resonates loudly with what is happening now at the hands of the police to black and brown men - and some poor white people.

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Apr 17
4 min

Crip Camp ★★★★

"Crip Camp" - about “a camp for the handicapped, run by hippies” - is a story that makes for a powerful and intensely personal film.

2filmcritics

Apr 1
4 min

The Father ★★★★

As Anthony, the 84-year-old protagonist, Anthony Hopkins is at his King Lear best, and as his daughter Anne, Olivia Colman is just as good.

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Mar 25
4 min

Promising Young Woman ★★★1/2

Cassie (short for Cassandra) is a magnificent machine of vengeance, played to steely perfection by award-winning actress Carey Mulligan.

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Mar 19
3 min

News of the World ★★1/2

News of the World” has all the trappings of the on-the-road adventure genre, with hints of the Western and the buddy film.

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May 1, 2020
3 min

The Two Popes ★★★

Powerful performances by Anthony Hopkins Jonathan Pryce make it an entertaining film but one that skims the surface of moral issues.

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Apr 22, 2020
3 min

The Lighthouse ★★★

Will appeal to moviegoers who enjoy the intimacy and confinement of the setting--and who don’t mind a journey to the edge of horror.

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Mar 30, 2020
4 min

Ford v Ferrari ★★★1/2

This historical drama of the individual and bureaucracy is as good as Hollywood gets, with multiple riveting races.

2filmcritics

Mar 20, 2020
4 min

American Factory ★★★

This 2019 Best Documentary, is the story—at its best—of a clash of cultures when the Chinese re-open an Ohio factory.

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Feb 6, 2020
4 min

Les Miserables ★★★1/2

“Battle of Algiers” meets “Lord of the Flies.” Exciting, scary, tragic, riveting. Won Cannes Jury Prize; nominee Best International Feature

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Jan 19, 2020
4 min

Bombshell ★★1/2

The 3 women in “Bombshell” should get an ensemble cast award—if the Oscars had one.The director, writer & editors should go back to school.

2filmcritics

Jul 8, 2019
4 min

Toy Story 4 ★★★1/2

The franchise’s feminist film.

2filmcritics

Apr 12, 2019
4 min

Us ★★1/2

Horror is the main course in "Us," which doesn't live up to Director Jordan Peele's promise in his remarkable 2017 "Get Out!"

2filmcritics

Mar 16, 2019
3 min

Never Look Away ★★★

A compelling story inside this bloated, big budget indie.

2filmcritics

Mar 7, 2019
2 min

Capernaum ★★★★

Social realism in one of 2018's best foreign films, set in Lebanon.

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Feb 20, 2019
2 min

Shoplifters ★★★ 1/2

The group has its pleasures, including crowding onto a tiny back porch to listen to fireworks they can’t see.

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Feb 12, 2019
2 min

Minding the Gap ★★★ 1/2

The pleasures of speed and risk, and the flight from the emotional toll of rejection and abuse.

2filmcritics

Feb 5, 2019
3 min

Cold War ★★★ 1/2

Full of unexpected, and often inexplicable, or even perverse, twists and turns

2filmcritics

Feb 1, 2019
2 min

The Favourite ★★★ 1/2

If there were an Oscar for Best Ensemble, these three women would be “favourites.”

The French Dispatch

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez

The Souvenir (Part One)

Dune

Black Bear

No Time to Die

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”)

No Sudden Move

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Shiva Baby

The Green Knight

White on White

The Truffle Hunters

Zola

In the Heights

Riders of Justice

A Quiet Place Part II

There Is No Evil

Syndrome K

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

Crip Camp

The Father

Promising Young Woman

News of the World

Nomadland

Minari

Another Round ("Druk")

Some Kind of Heaven

The White Tiger

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mangrove

Mank

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The Vast of Night

Martin Eden

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Wild Goose Lake

Cuties ("Mignonnes")

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Assistant

Palm Springs

Sorry We Missed You

The Painted Bird

The Truth

Bacurau

Da 5 Bloods

Beanpole

Tommaso

L'Innocente ("The Innocent")

The Painter and the Thief

Bad Education

Until the Birds Return

The Two Popes

The Lighthouse

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Midsommar

Ford v Ferrari

American Factory

First Cow

Seberg

Ordinary Love

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Traitor/Il Traditore

Uncut Gems

Les Misérables

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Bombshell

1917

Knives Out

Little Women

Marriage Story

Queen & Slim

The Irishman

Cold Brook

Jojo Rabbit

Parasite

Joker

Ad Astra

Pain and Glory

First Love

Downton Abbey

Monos

The Goldfinch

Late Night

Good Boys

The Farewell

Yesterday

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

They Shall Not Grow Old

Toy Story 4

Bad Times at the El Royale

Bob Wilson's Life and
Death of Marina
Abramovic

The Sisters Brothers

Gloria Bell

Us

Won't You Be My
Neighbor

Never Look Away

Capernaum

Everybody Knows

Shoplifters

Three Identical Strangers

Minding the Gap

Cold War

The Favourite

Creed II

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Can You Ever Forgive Me

Green Book

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Wildlife

The Kindergarten Teacher

Free Solo

A Star is Born

Museo

Eighth Grade

BlacKkKlansman

Sorry to Bother You

A Ciambra

The First Purge

Piazza Vittorio

Loro 1

My Cousin Rachel

Black Panther

Marshall

Call Me By Your Name

I, Tonya

Mudbound

The Darkest Hour

The Post

The Shape of Water

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

Downsizing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERVIEW with "Blade Runner" Screenwriter Hampton Fancher

Lady Bird

Rome Adventure

Last Flag Flying

Mother!

Blade Runner 2049

Logan Lucky

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

The Beguiled

Berlin Syndrome

Facing Windows

Baby Driver

Personal Shopper

INTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek Kolstad

I Am Not Your Negro

Sing

Get Out

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

Hacksaw Ridge

Hidden Figures

Fences

Arrival

Elle

Lion

La La Land

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Doctor Strange

Florence Foster Jenkins

Demon

Mia Madre

Indignation

Captain Fantastic

Weiner

2 FILM CRITICS

Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★

Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★

Crip Camp ★★★★

The Father ★★★★

Promising Young Woman ★★★1/2

News of the World ★★1/2

The Two Popes ★★★

The Lighthouse ★★★

Ford v Ferrari ★★★1/2

American Factory ★★★

Les Miserables ★★★1/2

Bombshell ★★1/2

Toy Story 4 ★★★1/2

Us ★★1/2

Never Look Away ★★★

Capernaum ★★★★

Shoplifters ★★★ 1/2

Minding the Gap ★★★ 1/2

Cold War ★★★ 1/2

The Favourite ★★★ 1/2

4 STARS

Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★

Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★

Crip Camp ★★★★

The Father ★★★★

Promising Young Woman ★★★1/2

News of the World ★★1/2

The Two Popes ★★★

The Lighthouse ★★★

Ford v Ferrari ★★★1/2

American Factory ★★★

Les Miserables ★★★1/2

Bombshell ★★1/2

Toy Story 4 ★★★1/2

Us ★★1/2

Never Look Away ★★★

Capernaum ★★★★

Shoplifters ★★★ 1/2

Minding the Gap ★★★ 1/2

Cold War ★★★ 1/2

The Favourite ★★★ 1/2

4 STARS

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