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Critical Darlings: Sinners And The Academy’s Growing Genre Acceptance with Sam Sanders

This week we’re joined by Sam Sanders of The Sam Sanders Show to discuss Sinners, the most nominated film in Academy Awards history. With sixteen nominations across directing, writing, music, and acting categories, Sinners is a somewhat surprising record breaker, as genre films, ... Show more

. 1h 28min

The Eleventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

Live from our windowless studio in Downtown Brooklyn, it's the 11th Annual Blankies! Joe Reid joins us once again to give out golden Wattos to our favorite films, performances, and craftspeople of the year. Some of our picks are certainly part of the greater award season conversa ... Show more

. 3h 3min

Critical Darlings: Sentimental Value and Belated Oscar Breakthroughs with Joe Reid

This week we’re in hygge mode, uncovering traumas in our generational home with the host of This Had Oscar Buzz, Joe Reid! One of the breakout Oscar films of the year is Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a warm, realist Norwegian film about a difficult but brilliant director (St ... Show more

. 1h 19min

Die My Love with Alison Willmore

Our Lynne Ramsay series comes to a close with last year's Die My Love, which brings us to the realization - damn, have we really never talked about Jennifer Lawrence before? Join us and Vulture's Alison Willmore as we do a full career deep-dive on J.Law, and grapple with this fil ... Show more

. 2h 59min

Critical Darlings: The Secret Agent And The Increasingly International Academy

Viva Brazil! Today we discuss Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, the simmering, colorful Brazilian thriller about a man on the run, starring the dreamy Wagner Moura and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. The story, about retaining personal and political memory under authorita ... Show more

. 1h 33min