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By the time you read this, you and I and everyone else will be focusing with laser-like intensity on the few, those lucky few, that have managed to survive the first stages of the campaign for Oscar glory, at the expense of all the rest of the films...

As critics, we spend countless hours in darkened theaters, scribbling cryptic notes to ourselves and hoping beyond hope to get lucky enough to see something truly transcendent. In a good year, we might experience such a thing three or four times amongst...

Just as it made a strong showing in the Oscar nominations Thursday morning, “Birdman” was the front-runner with the most nominations for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Thursday night. It also ended the night with the most trophies, taking home seven...

I’m a little (a lot) later than normal with my best of the year list, which I can partially attribute to myself being completely unable to stop cramming in films from last year. It’s hard to have an end game when there are always so many movies that...

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 20^th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS BEST PICTURE Birdman Boyhood Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Nightcrawler Selma The Theory of Everything Unbroken Whiplash BEST ACTOR Benedict Cumberbatch...