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Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:44PM Murtada Elfadl reporting from Sundance
Should we react to movies based on content or artistic merit? I struggled with two movies at Sundance this week which had incendiary, important content and tackled either a crucial part of history or provided necessary social commentary. Artistically, however, I found both Clemency and The Report lacking...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 9:30AM Abe Fried-Tanzer reporting from Sundance
Everyone knows the name Ted Bundy, but I’m not sure that everyone knows as much as they think they do about him. I certainly didn’t going into Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the Sundance premiere from director Joe Berlinger, an Oscar nominee back in 2011 for the documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. The key curiousity here is the casting of Zac Efron, onetime star of High School Musical, as the notorious killer...
Monday, January 28, 2019 at 10:15PM by staff
We couldn't let the Oscar season go without our team of writers giving you our 7th annual Team Experience Awards (Nathaniel doesn't vote on these but his Film Bitch Awards will resume in a couple of days). We've given ourselves some time to catch up to 2018's offerings and as a result we have some fun surprises in store for our ballot! This year our Best Film goes to Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, one of the six prizes we've given it of thirteen total nominations. Next behind is Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk with nine mentions, and then the love is spread pretty wide elsewhere with Roma, Hereditary, BlacKkKlansman, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? doing well among nominations.
Best Picture
Monday, January 28, 2019 at 7:00PM Okay, ready. This is a big post today. We're looking at everything in wide release (all 21 films) and their counterparts at the arthouse to see how the Oscar nominations affected the box office.
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| 1 Glass $18.8 on 3844 screens (cum. $73.4) Review |
1 Uri: Surgical Street $630k on 132 screens (cum. $2.7) |
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| 2 The Upside $11.9 on 3377 screens (cum. $62.8) |
2 🔺 Cold War $571k on 111 screens (cum. $1.4) Review, Podcast, 13th Biggest Foreign Hit , Foreign Nominee ★ |
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| 3 Aquaman $7.2 on 3134 screens (cum. $316.4) Review, Podcast, 6th Biggest Box Office Hit of 2018 |
3 🔺 Can You Ever Forgive Me? $246k on 235 screens (cum. $8.0) Review, Podcast, Best Actress, Supporting Actor ★ |
Cold War, Green Book, Serenity, box office Monday, January 28, 2019 at 5:00PM by Eric Blume
Michel Legrand in 1981French film composer Michel Legrand passed away this past weekend after six decades of work in the industry. He was truly one of the greats. Chief among his accomplishments was the sung-through score for the masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), delivering music that soared and perfectly caught the melancholy tone of director Jacques Demy’s pastel/sad view of the world. The Legrand-Demy collaboration was deliriously French and remains a pristine achievement over a half century later...
