Tag: A24
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2025 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Predictions – Indie Films to Watch Out For
With the results from the Gotham Film Awards now behind us, it’s time to turn toward a fresh slate of possibilities with our Independent Spirit Awards nominations predictions for 2025. The IFP Independent Spirit Awards are another organization dedicated to championing independent film in the industry. However, several buzzy titles like One Battle After Another,…
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Gotham Film Awards 2024 Predictions: Who Will Win and What It Means for the Oscars
As is traditionally the case, the east coast film critics of the United States will be first out of the gate with singling out the year’s best in film. We’ll be watching a New York double-bill on the Oscar circuit as the Gotham Film Awards announce winners on Monday, December 1st and the New York…
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Predicting the 2025 Gotham Film Awards Nominations
As the 2025 Gotham Independent Film Awards nominations are set to be announced, anticipation is high for what many consider the first major awards season precursor of the year. The Gotham Film Awards, presented by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, have long been a reliable early indicator of the industry’s critical favorites — and…
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Venice Day Six HOT TAKES: Acting Contenders Emerge in Dwayne Johnson, Amanda Seyfried, and Emily Blunt
The two biggest premieres on Day 6 of the 82nd Venice Film Festival were without question Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine—his first feature without his brother Josh—and Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, which arrives on the heels of her Oscar nomination last year for co-writing The Brutalist. Both films landed strongly with critics,…
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If The Oscars Were Tomorrow: Animated Feature (Oscars 2025)
This category is all over the place this year. Animation continues to grow in popularity with critics and audiences in the U.S., with expanding and refining tastes eager for new storytellers rather than established industry-leading studio projects. The seismic shifts we’re witnessing in the field right now really demand, and deserve, thoughtful analysis, which we…
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“Architecton” Hammers at the Senses and then Chips Away at the Soul
Now is a precarious time for the cinema. It’s a rote sentiment perhaps, but that’s not necessarily disqualifying. Certainly, the very nature of the modern cinema – always at the intersection between art and commerce, in constant tug-of-war, stretched and yanked and reeled back-and-forth – will always be plagued by the “precarious” moment it currently…
