Last call for Album of the Year considerations before writing a list like that. What have you been listening to all year?
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This is a great point. This trailer dropped out of nowhere and got everyone excited and before you knew it, it was here. And we were still excited, rather than exhausted at the very thought of it.
Calvin Kemph@calvinkemph.bsky.social · last wk.One takeaway from You Can See Everything’s release model is we know about movies way too early. We got the trailer for the movie a few months ago. And now it’s out and the best movie of the year. That’s incredibly rare in movies. This should always be happening, with better movies.
One takeaway from You Can See Everything’s release model is we know about movies way too early. We got the trailer for the movie a few months ago. And now it’s out and the best movie of the year. That’s incredibly rare in movies. This should always be happening, with better movies.
Four hours with Elon Musk is more time than anyone should want to spend, but Alex Gibney’s latest is exhaustive and you probably already agree with it. MUSK uses the tools of the oppressor, perhaps because it already believes the end is here, and it’s too late. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
MUSK: World’s Always Burning
MUSK is too much time with Elon Musk. Four hours of your life is a hard bargain. You already agree, probably, as Musk is not some mysterious figure. There’s a whole social network where you can hea…
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Blessings to anyone sending anything but horror movies for consideration in this season of the devil. We may not watch your movies but you are sweet.
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. Could not imagine wanting to hear another second about Elizabeth Holmes, but as incredulous audience surrogate Nathan Fielder proved me dead wrong for 174 consecutive minutes. His electrifying new documentary with Lance Oppenheim knocked the wind out of me like nothing else.
What great news to wake up to! Excited to join @seattlecritics.bsky.social—my first ever critics society 😀 Thank you @eclectichutch.bsky.social @calvinkemph.bsky.social and all for the invite, and for the warm PNW (oxymoron??) welcome since I moved out here a few years ago.
I just wonder what the 60-foot Cylopse is up to? Where’s he at? Did they keep him? Like one of those Home Depot skeletons, I hope he is sitting in someone’s yard now.
I wrote about Lisa Cholodenko's High Art, out now on @criterion.bsky.social. In her directorial debut, she evokes an era while tackling timeless concerns. I only wish Radha Mitchell and Ally Sheedy had more similarly substantial roles afterward--though it's not too late. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
All I've Got Is a Photograph: Looking Back at Lisa Cholodenko's 1998 Debut <i>High Art</i>
HIGH ART (Lisa Cholodenko, USA, 1998, 101 minutes) Every time I see your face It reminds me of the places we used to go But all I've got...
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In every timeline, I’m still thinking about Rose of Nevada
Disclosure Day serves as a preamble to a better Spielberg movie we already have, more aligned with the science fiction of the past than it is invested in the present or the future. The result is an antiquated hopefulness and faith in collective thought. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
Disclosure Day: Today is Disclosure Day
Naïveté stirs itself into hyper-optimism in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Spielberg — a talented filmmaker who could be the next M. Night Shyamalan — returns to blockbuster filmmaking with a h…
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Of all the recent years of movies, this one is feeling real unhinged. letterboxd.com/calvinkemph/...
Wild Horse Nine — opening my awards campaign office now 😜
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The Oscars had a whole speech about how documentary directors are often at odds with their government and at risk of being murdered for their films. But Best International Films are still submitted by their governments, and the award goes to the country.
Folks on the internet care a lot about whether other people on the internet are fun at parties.
The videogames of 2025 offered fun and innovation in equal measure. Join us as we explore the best of the year in interactive entertainment. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
Game of Year 2025
If 2025 was a mixed year for the videogame industry, it was still a banner year for videogame releases. We’ve collected the best of the best for our end-of-year consideration. Let’s go banana…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple follows the wild ending of the last movie with an equally wild additive story, that brings the series back to its punkish roots. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – Back to Punk Horror
Danny Boyle did the funniest thing. 28 Years Later ended with an absurdist punk ethos. The dramatic tonal shift quickly diverts from the dark coming of age story that proceeded it. Knowing Nia DaCo…
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The Twin Geeks Film of the Year is Sinners Also recognized: Black Bag, BLKNWS, Deathstalker, Eephus, Marty Supreme, No Other Choice, One Battle After Another, Train Dreams, and Testament of Ann Lee @seattlecritics.bsky.social
Film of the Year 2025
In the Year of Our Lord (Paul Thomas Anderson), 2025, there was a seismic shift in the culture of movies. What has worked for a couple decades no longer works. Mammoth hero movies are no longer the…
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Seemed as good a time as any time to revive a 2002 @siffnews.bsky.social piece I wrote about Douglas Sirk, melodrama (as something other than a pejorative), and the critics, filmmakers, and critic/filmmakers who saw the value in his work and took inspiration from it. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
Douglas Sirk: In Praise of Melodrama
Another piece I wrote for Reel News, SIFF's now-defunct publication for members, in 2002 (it was never online, because that was a different ...
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@seattlecritics.bsky.social noms are out! Come for Train Dreams, Sinners, One Battle After Another in BP, stay for Pacific Northwest awards, the best of PNW shorts, Eephus in ensemble, The Ugly Stepsister in International, and Bring Her Back in Best Villain. Proud of our group and picks as always.
Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Awards Nominations
Seattle, WA – The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has announced nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ties the all-time record…
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Happy to accept FIFA prize for being the best at watching movies. Thank you for your attn.
Very unserious that Netflix owns so much cinema history. Good that they’re expanding beyond their business of sending movies in envelopes by mail finally.
Always this. Write like you’re curious, not like you know everything already.
Alex Pagliuca@alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 11mo agoI saw someone recently say that Christian rock sucks because it’s all answers, and the best art is always about questions. What Robert is saying is what my recent belly aching about lazy film criticism has been trying to express. I try to get at what the best questions that spring from a story are