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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2023
a video countdown
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"i would've impeached Trump a third time if i could."
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Hayao Miyazaki didn't go to the
#Oscars
in 2003 because of his opposition to the catastrophic inhumanity of the Iraq War. if only we could know why he wasn't at the 2024 Oscars either.
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another day working at the multiplex. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the Dune 2 popcorn bucket. buddy, this is an AMC, of course you can fuck the popcorn bucket.
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Tenet is the kind of batshit movie that someone usually makes right *after* winning Best Director but i guess it makes sense that Christopher Nolan did it in reverse order
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Shoutout to the 900,000 Jewish creatives, executives, and Hollywood professions who haven’t
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
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Wes Anderson not showing up to accept his first Oscar vs. Diane Warren showing up to lose all 15 of hers. both legendary behavior.
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Akira Kurosawa's Ran — an epic riff on King Lear that required 200 horses, 1,400 suits of armor, building a full-size *castle* on the slopes of Mt. Fuji & burning it down, and spraying an entire field gold for a scene that got cut — cost almost $200 million less than The Flash.
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i actually did have "Will Smith furiously smacks the shit out of Chris Rock" on my
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bingo card and am now incredibly rich
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TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a much much much better movie than Top Gun.
I’m not talking the difference between Paddington 2 and Paddington 1. I’m talking the difference between Paddington 2 and Morbius.
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the problem with living in these old Brooklyn apartments is that they’re absolutely crawling with giant soot sprites (and small Totoros)
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Emma Stone is absolutely incredible in Poor Things but Lily Gladstone's performance in Killers of the Flower Moon is *forever* and it always will be.
#Oscars
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this Melissa Barrera shit is infuriating. the definition of “anti-semitism” is being devalued so fast and in such bad faith that it will soon lose all meaning, which probably isn’t *great* for the Jews long-term. alas, by definition, Zionism doesn’t care about anything but itself
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John Travolta standing there and basking in the fact that for once he's not the reason why everyone is intensely uncomfortable.
#oscars
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i was so focused on Jean Jacket being an aerodynamic butthole i only just realized that it's actually a giant flying eye (duh!) (great movie)
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all you need to know about The Northman — a $90 million viking revenge movie directed by Robert Eggers — is that every single moment of it feels like a $90 million viking revenge movie directed by Robert Eggers.
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the first thing I see when I step outside of my Cannes apartment every day
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my guy picked Paddington 2 even though it came out 20 years after his death. what a legend.
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i'm just going to say it: the editor of Everything Everywhere All at Once is too hot.
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incredible how famous actors keep finding new ways to make reading the contents of an envelope seem so hard
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every child in Brooklyn is spider-man. there are two spider-men for every civilian. never felt safer.
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Avatar The Way of Water: lol imagine being dumb enough to bet against James Cameron. or teen alien Sigourney Weaver. or giant whales subtitled in papyrus.
light years better than the first & easily one of the best theatrical experiences in ages. streaming found dead in a ditch.
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TAR getting totally blanked is so poetic (that movie will stand the test of time juuuust fine on its own)
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Lady Gaga was once again like "i will only perform at the Oscars if it is filmed in the most uncomfortably intimate way possible" and i love that about her
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All Quiet on the Western Front wins Best Cinematography for its visionary depiction of war as bad
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please don’t misinterpret the adjusted Rotten Tomatoes rankings to mean that “Paddington 2 is now the best movie of all time.”
Paddington 2 *already was* the best movie of all time. thank you.
#CitizenKane
Loses Its Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score After 80-Year-Old Negative Review Resurfaces
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THE LAST OF US: i'm super invested in these games. one of the precious few things i'm truly a *fan* of. was optimistic about the show because of the people involved, but naturally skeptical of retelling this story. i've seen the whole first season and… they fucking NAILED it.
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everything about that was a bummer.
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fucked up big time not saving Best Picture for last, Boseman doesn’t get the tribute he deserves, and Hopkins gets a “what the fuck just happened?” moment for the single best performance of his entire career.
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THE GREEN KNIGHT: holy shit.
i absolutely lost my damn head for David Lowery's medieval epic, a thoroughly modern film that goes so hard it feels like it must've been made 40 years ago. gallop, don't trot.
my review:
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if you had told me a year ago that Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's downbeat 3-hour Chekhov movie was going to win an Oscar i probably would've been like "okay, next you'll tell me that The Flash Entering the Speed Force is going to be named the greatest Cheer Moment of all time."
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"my terrible movie could've grossed $1.6 billion in real money but instead it made nothing and has a smaller cultural footprint than Argylle — and that's why the Netflix model is so incredible!"
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will never forgive All Quiet on the Western Front for making me wish that ELVIS had won several Oscars instead
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didn’t think we’d ever see another
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ending as bizarre as the Moonlight // La La Land mixup, but its like i’ve always said: if a man can form a friendship with an octopus then i guess anything is possible!
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The Fall Guy has big “the movies are back” vibes. huge. runs way out of gas in the second half but honestly who gives a shit. this is what it’s all about: not a superhero in sight, just chemistry & car crashes & Ryan Gosling wearing a jacket. let’s make it a hit & never look back
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Paul Giamatti crying during Da'Vine Joy Randolph's acceptance speech is my new favorite part of The Holdovers.
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fun story: the DCP broke 45 minutes into the first press screening of Killers of the Flower Moon, which was a huge bummer… until they rescheduled it for later that day in Scorsese’s personal screening room.
most days my job is The Exorcist: Believer, but some days it’s that.
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this is so cool. Criterion's efforts to preserve and recirculate classic films are obviously the core of what they do, but i love that they're starting to rescue essential new work from the streaming abyss & give it a second chance to be something (so much) more than "content."
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proud to be in some pretty good company here, but i'm also sickened that Glazer's speech has been used to draw so much attention from the ongoing, ever-worsening genocide being conducted in our names. as Glazer proved, every chance to speak is a chance to speak out against this.
Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and More Jewish Creatives Support Jonathan Glazer's Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
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as you may have heard, tonight’s feature-length episode of The Last of Us with Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett is absolutely *extraordinary* (and virtually none of it is in the game). don’t miss.
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it's sad because Kissinger was really excited for Wonka. so close!
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Asteroid City: Wes is BACK. more than one of the very best movies Wes Anderson has ever made, this cosmic & dreamy (and sneakily moving) grief comedy offers a radical new take on his usual approach to story.
My
#Cannes2023
review:
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Challengers is a fucking *blast.* the most fun i've had at the movies this year. a deliriously hot tennis drama about the animating force of desire in all its forms, backstopped by the best performance of Zendaya's career.
my review:
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an intrinsically american film about people in america navigating what it means to be american while surrounded by a bunch of other americans in real deep america. but far be it for me to question a sacred institution that's about to nominate THE PROM for Best Picture.
#GoldenGlobes
:
#Minari
will not be competing in the best picture categories, instead it will be considered in foreign language film because it is primarily in Korean
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American Fiction and Indiana Jones getting best score nominations over Joe Hisaishi’s immortal work on The Boy and the Heron… as rude as the Oscars have ever been
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DON’T LOOK UP, but the comet is the movie DON’T LOOK UP and the Oscars are planet earth and the metaphor is that the Oscars are bad.
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looking forward to next year when Barbie becomes the first movie to win in every category.
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truly some of the most demented shit I’ve ever seen on this or any website
Remixing my reaction to
@standupdan
because it was making me laugh so hard - I thought you should see how hard I was laughing and maybe you need a laugh from Dan Ahdoot too!
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LICORICE PIZZA is just an absurdly great ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑦𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑠 kind of thing. a euphoric coming-of-age romance set in a mixed-up time between one Hollywood and another. PTA's sweetest film, but also his funniest.
my review:
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not saying White Noise would've made any $, but it's very funny to me that a few months ago someone spent $100 million on a movie about a massive explosion & the irrepressible fear of death *starring the writer-director of Barbie* and basically decided not to put it in theaters.
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if something terrible happens in your life, the first movie you watch afterwards will 100% turn out to be about that terrible thing in some way. happens every time. movies are really just there for you like that.
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congrats to Poor Things for winning the Fury Road Award for "movie that sweeps the below-the-line awards at the start of the
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and deludes people into thinking it has a shot at Best Picture"
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a little hung up on the new hunger games tbh! it's all relative, but i'm struggling to remember the last time a prequel was *this* much better & more interesting than the rest of its franchise. A+ cast, nuanced story, one of the 3 best Jason Schwartzman performances of the year…
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The Sopranos was the best show I saw this year and yet… zero nominations. the Emmys are a joke.
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fun fact: this is the very first time i'm hearing "We Don't Talk About Bruno." does it usually include a rap about Hollywood's Biggest Night?
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the movies. they're back.
For better or for worse. George Clooney and Julia Roberts star in
#TicketToParadise
. In Theaters this October.
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Hi! I’m so grateful to say that, over the last three years, these video countdowns have raised more than $50,000 for food insecure families in Brooklyn, women in need of abortions in Texas, and families in need of legal support in New Orleans.
This year…
for those who care about such things, here's the self-imposed, semi-realistic public deadline i give myself every year in order to actually get this done.
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a fun thing to remember is that Ethan from The White Lotus (aka Will Sharpe) directed that wonky biopic where Benedict Cumberbatch played the guy who couldn't stop drawing cats (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain)
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sorry that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is so fucking good i guess
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met a guy at a party last night who told me that FURY ROAD was the last movie he’ll ever see in theaters.
ME: because you had a bad experience?
HIM: because nothing could ever top that.
…fair play, i guess.
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it's giving "apple tv+ commercial"
Timothée Chalamet and Martin Scorsese were spotted filming something in New York City this morning. 👀
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literally every kid in my neighborhood is dressed as Lydia Tár smdh
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there was genuinely a millisecond there where i thought Matt Damon might be in the cocaine bear
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as someone who once interviewed Joaquin Phoenix i feel strongly that if people don't want to do press they should be allowed to not do press
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it's so profoundly stupid that Brad Pitt and Johnny Knoxville haven't starred in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie about the co-dependent relationship between a hot serial killer and his fuck-up kid brother in 1930s Hollywood… or something.
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"we will find the bear, and we will destroy him once and for all. no further questions."
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the first year of The Truman Show must have been so boring.
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this is what i tweeted when CODA won best picture.
[Anne Hathaway voice] "it came true!"
this will all feel like a bad dream we all had when EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE makes history by sweeping every category at the
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next year, truly uniting movie-lovers once and for all in hotdog-handed bliss.
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If Netflix is gonna win its first Best Picture, then please Jesus let it be for Power of the Dog. then we could know peace.
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still working out my feelings on Oppenheimer but can say with some confidence that it’s the loudest movie I’ve ever seen about Cillian Murphy sitting in a small room for three hours. his cheekbones in 70mm IMAX are like 3D without glasses.
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for those who care about such things, here's the self-imposed, semi-realistic public deadline i give myself every year in order to actually get this done.
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"Cate Blanchett couldn't be here tonight because she won't fly to the States for anything less than a New York Film Critics Circle Award."
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it should be illegal for the Oscars to be over before 10:30. plenty of room for a best stunt award, full clips, a lifetime achievement award, a short animated documentary on the size and shape of John Cena's ass, whatever. otherwise good show.
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The Matrix Resurrections, despite (and because of) its infinite goofiness, is the boldest & most vividly personal Hollywood sequel since The Last Jedi. a silly/sincere galaxy brain take on reboot culture that makes peace with how modern blockbusters are now only about themselves.
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John Deere is trying to break a strike by having salaried office workers operate heavy machinery, let’s see how that’s going—
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the Asylum’s new Little Mermaid legitimately looks better than Disney’s new Little Mermaid
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ranked purely in order of how much i'd like them to win best picture:
10. Maestro
9. American Fiction
8. The Holdovers
7. Oppenheimer
6. Barbie
5. Poor Things
4. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Past Lives
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
1. The Zone of Interest
0. Asteroid City
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Catch Me if You Can… low-key the single best movie Tom Hanks has ever been in?
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