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The Portland Critics Association (PCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… Best PictureMarty SupremeNo Other ChoiceOne Battle After Another (WINNER)Sinners (RUNNER-UP)Sorry, BabyTrain Dreams Best DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After...

2025 was the first full calendar year I had without my previous day job, and I must admit, it was the most challenging year I’ve ever had running NBP. From the workload to the increasing financial pressure, the industry continues...

Since 2006, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) has presented annual EDA Awards, representing professional women critics’ collective perspectives on movies and cinema culture in the movie awards arena, where female critics and critical opinion are still greatly underrepresented....

The New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… Best PictureHamnetIt Was Just An AccidentMarty SupremeNo Other ChoiceOne Battle After Another (WINNER)The Secret AgentSentimental ValueSinners (RUNNER-UP)Train...

The Film Critics Association UK (UKFCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… 2025 Film of the Year One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Sinners Sorry, Baby Weapons Best Director  Guillermo...

2025 brought us a lot of change: some good (everybody’s having “a few small beers,”) but some bad (why does it take three clicks to save a screenshot now, Tim Cook?!). Every year, studios and streamers hope to strike gold...

For this week’s second podcast review, Ema Sasic and Dan Bayer join me to discuss the latest film from Craig Brewer, “Song Sung Blue” starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, Hudson Hensley...

Are we underestimating five-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Bugonia” at the 98th Oscars? The next few weeks of major precursors — namely the PGA/SAG award nominations and BAFTA Longlists — will determine what the industry thinks of Lanthimos’s surreal tragicomedy....

As the New Year and the next major stage of Oscar season approaches, the 2025 race already looks like something we haven’t seen in a long time. There have been several years when only one film has swept the early...

THE STORY – Julia Loktev documents independent journalists in Moscow facing government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for speech amid risks of being branded “foreign agents” and the country’s drift towards authoritarianism. THE CAST – N/A THE TEAM...