A ★★★★½ review of You Can See Everything (2026)

While Elizabeth Holmes was scamming her way to billions with the fraudulent blood tests of Theranos Inc, Nathan Fielder was scamming on behalf of small businesses on Comedy Central’s quasi-documentary...

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The Oscar Case for “You Can See Everything” And Why It's Tied To “Borat” - Next Best Picture

For the next two months, every awards conversation about “You Can See Everything” will revolve around how no documentary has ever been nominated for Best Picture. Yet, since “You Can See Everything” i...

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Ranking The Strength Of The Best Picture Oscar Contenders After The 2026 Fall Film Festivals - Next Best Picture

Except for major longshots like “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” “Werwulf” and “The Mosquito Bowl,” every potential Best Picture candidate aside from “Dune: Part Three” has now been seen a...

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A ★★ review of The Social Reckoning (2026)

The Social Reckoning is meant to highlight exactly when Facebook’s hubris, neglect, lack of understanding of women and the most vulnerable, and quasi-dictatorial management reached a tipping point onl...

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Which Long-Overdue Contender Will Win An Oscar This Year? - Next Best Picture

The last several years have been marked by the Oscars finally honoring a long-beloved, long-overdue figure, whether it was Paul Thomas Anderson in 2025, Sean Baker in 2024, Christopher Nolan in 2023, ...

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Can "Michael" And "Digger" Overcome Their Reviews To Become Best Picture Nominees? - Next Best Picture

The only consolation for “Digger” right now, when it comes to the Oscar race, is that it is somehow not the lowest-reviewed film still considered to have a shot at major nominations. That position sti...

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A ★★½ review of Digger (2026)

In all the years of the “eat the rich” genre and its more apocalyptic versions, from Parasite and Triangle of Sadness to Don’t Look Up and Bugonia, the most radical takedown of the rich, their politic...

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“Dune: Part Three” Is Now The Biggest Wild Card In The Best Picture Race - Next Best Picture

More than a few movies were big winners and losers when they played at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto these last couple of weeks. But a potential big winner of the fall film festival season may be one...

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A ★★★ review of Primetime (2026)

When we look back at what we made famous in the 2000s, we tend to wag our fingers in self-pity and hindsight laden shame – between the likes of the War on Terror, the TMZ-ification of celebrity, badly...

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What We Learned About The 2026 Oscar Race From Venice, Telluride & TIFF - Next Best Picture

From Venice opening day to the TIFF awards ceremony morning, the Oscar season received its usual amount of new twists and turns out of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto. In a way, one could argue nothing...

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A ★★★½ review of Resident Evil (2026)

So much attention was given to Curry Barker and Kane Parsons as the horror blockbuster voices of the summer, it seemed to make Zach Cregger literally yesterday’s news. Only months earlier, Cregger was...

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Could “The Debut” Or “Wild Horse Nine” Win Best Picture? - Next Best Picture

Although there are six months until Oscar night and the fall fests have only just started, it’s all too easy to think “The Odyssey” is unbeatable, because it has the strongest and seemingly most unsha...

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2026 rankings

A list of 75 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Invite (2026), The Odyssey (2026), Blue Heron (2025), Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) and Project Hail Mary (2026).

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What Are The Burning Questions As We Head Into The 2026 Fall Film Festivals?

Although the 2026-27 Oscar season has really been underway for months, thanks to the likes of “The Odyssey,” “Project Hail Mary,” “Obsession,” “The Invite,” and several Cannes films, the fall festival...

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A ★★★★ review of Coyote vs. Acme (2026)

In the grand scale of damage David Zaslav has done to Warner Bros, Hollywood and maybe the entire country since 2023, deleting Coyote vs Acme for a tax write off, at bare minimum, is a mere drop in th...

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What The 2025 Oscar Season Can Teach Us About This Year’s Early Best Picture Contenders

Going into the fall and winter, several movies are being projected as Oscar favorites and sure-fire nominees sight unseen, as per usual. But it is also per usual to have a lot of those preseason favor...

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Will The Academy Reward A Past Acting Oscar Winner Again This Year?

It’s easy to assume that if an Oscar race comes down between someone who has won before and someone who hasn’t, the Academy would tend to prefer a newer winner. But when it comes to acting races, that...

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A ★★★★ review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

Obsession and Backrooms supposedly made this a revolutionary summer for horror, but it was made that way for some demographics above others. If Obsession was in any way from the perspective of its vic...

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Could The 2026 Best Actress Oscar Race Follow The Exact Same Script As Last Year?

Last year the Best Actress race was considered one of the least suspenseful and most predictable of the entire decade, in more ways than one. There was an overwhelming favorite out of Telluride who sw...

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Which A24 Film Will Emerge From The Fall Festivals As Their Biggest Oscar Contender?

In 2025, A24’s Oscar season strategy for the entire year was basically “Marty Supreme” or absolutely nothing, and it paid off until it lost all nine of its nominations on Oscar night. But in 2026, A24...

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How "The Odyssey" Compares To Other High-Grossing Best Picture Nominees

While “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” got all the headlines for its box office records this past week, “The Odyssey” also hit its most important milestones to date. It became the 16th movie ever to make o...

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Will "Wild Horse Nine" And "Behemoth!" Become Searchlight's Next Oscar Powerhouse Pairing?

2025 was a historically disappointing year for Searchlight Pictures, without a single Best Picture nomination or even an Oscar nomination in any category at all. It was their first year without a Best...

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A ★★★½ review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

The end of the MCU’s dominance and legitimacy may not have been Avengers: Endgame in 2019, but Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021. The MCU was still on top with a share of well received movies and shows ...

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From "Project Hail Mary" To "Disclosure Day" To "The Odyssey": The Box Office Battle Between Hope & Despair

WARNING: Spoilers for “The Odyssey,” “Disclosure Day,” and “Project Hail Mary” Two straight hit weekends for “The Odyssey” that exceeded all expectations at the box office have proved audiences want t...

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Report: LeBron James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, is signing with the Sixers

In a shocking and historic twist, arguably the greatest player in NBA history is joining the Sixers, catapulting the team back into full-blown championship contention.

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"The Odyssey” Is The Oscar Frontrunner, But What’s The Path To Another Best Picture Win For Christopher Nolan?

The first weekend of “The Odyssey” is over; all the reviews have been tallied on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and over $124.5 million in box office in America alone has been cashed in. All told, “T...

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