Jan 17 2017
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Most Oscar nominees, save perhaps for those in the acting categories, are drawn from two unofficial pools. There’s…
Oscar ThisThe nominations for this year’s pushed-back Academy Awards will be announced on March 15, but voting officially begins next week. With Oscar This, The A.V. Club stumps for unlikely candidates—the long shots and dark horses we’d love to see compete on Oscar night.
Jan 16 2017
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Back in December, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science announced the 15 films that’ll be competing for the…
Jan 13 2017
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Here’s something I hadn’t anticipated: Nearly a decade and a half after Andy Serkis’ revolutionary collaboration…
Jan 12 2017
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Definitions of genre tend to grow nebulous as exceptions to rules pile up, but none are more malleable than “kids’…
Jan 11 2017
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It would be easy to underrate The Purge: Election Year, to view it as simply the latest entry in a trilogy of…
Jan 13 2016
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Not to rag too much on The Revenant, but there was another man-vs.-primeval-wilderness movie that came out last year…
Jan 12 2016
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A doctor, son of bereaved parents, goes village to village, confronting the murderous gangsters who killed his…
Jan 11 2016
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The Duke Of Burgundy unfolds like writer-director Peter Strickland’s half-remembered dream of some lost bit of…
Jan 8 2016
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Unfriended won’t get within spitting distance of next week’s Academy Award nominations: As a teen-geared horror…
Jan 7 2016
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Situated at the intersection between technical ingenuity and creative imagination, the Oscars’ Best Cinematography…
Jan 6 2016
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Only four women have ever been nominated for a Best Director Academy Award. The reasons for this can be broken down…
Jan 14 2015
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The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has narrow, predictable tastes, which are chalked up to the…
Jan 13 2015
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Jennifer Kent’s fledgling fright flick The Babadook is one of the most acclaimed horror movies of the last few…
Jan 12 2015
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The years blend together for Nicolas Cage. I’m speaking not as his biographer—for all I know, his every day is a…
Jan 9 2015
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An Iranian teenage vampire romance filmed in luscious black and white, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night remains one…
Jan 8 2015
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Even casual students of the Oscars probably develop pet distastes among the Academy’s many awards categories.…
Jan 15 2014
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In the 86 years that the Academy has been handing out awards for cinematography, only twice has a documentary…
Jan 14 2014
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Her is consistently described as being set in the near future, a purposefully vague phrase that, in another movie,…
Jan 13 2014
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Paul Dano may possess, as some have joked, the most “punchable face” in Hollywood, but the demonstration of this…
Jan 10 2014
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As formally assured as any film released last year, Edgar Wright’s The World’s End finds the Shaun Of The Dead and Ho…