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Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (#GWNYFCA) is a group of film critics/journalists based in and around WNY with an affinity for cinematic art.
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POLL: First Half of 2025 — The Best Films
(L to r) MICHAEL B. JORDAN as Smoke, WUNMI MOSAKU as Annie, HAILEE STEINFELD as Mary, MICHAEL B. JORDAN as Stack, MILES CATON as Sammie and OMAR BENSON MILLER as Cornbread in Warner Bros. Pictures’…
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We've reached the midpoint of 2025 and our critics want to make sure you don't miss these gems as we move towards festival/awards season.
Our favorite films of 2025 so far:
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Our favorite films of 2025 so far:
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Watched JAY KELLY. Glad to see Adam Sandler still picks projects that will send him to cool places so they can double as a family vacation.
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A ★★★ review of Jay Kelly (2025)
"Pieces of time." In the immortal words of Charles Dickens: "Jay Kelly was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Ron Sukenick's daughter, whose swollen feet finally went bac...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Watched JAY KELLY. Glad to see Adam Sandler still picks projects that will send him to cool places so they can double as a family vacation.
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Man, fuck you people, "Train Dreams" is great.
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Man, fuck you people, "Train Dreams" is great.
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Listen to my review of the recently released independent comedy “Tapawingo” starring Jon Heder.
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Movie Review: 'Tapawingo'
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December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Listen to my review of the recently released independent comedy “Tapawingo” starring Jon Heder.
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Tarantino apparently abhors subtitles so vehemently that he won't even include his own INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on this list.
like if you told me this list was “all-time best selling discs at walmart locations” i’d be like hmm yeah makes sense
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Tarantino apparently abhors subtitles so vehemently that he won't even include his own INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on this list.
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I wonder what he would have thought of the original actor who was fired because PTA found him to actually be too “weak sauce” to go toe to toe with DDL.
Was it ever confirmed who? Rumor at the time was an actor in Brian De Palma’s REDACTED.
Was it ever confirmed who? Rumor at the time was an actor in Brian De Palma’s REDACTED.
ICYMI: Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano.
Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I wonder what he would have thought of the original actor who was fired because PTA found him to actually be too “weak sauce” to go toe to toe with DDL.
Was it ever confirmed who? Rumor at the time was an actor in Brian De Palma’s REDACTED.
Was it ever confirmed who? Rumor at the time was an actor in Brian De Palma’s REDACTED.
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Letterboxd is an incredible social media platform if you want to slowly, over time, become less and less respectful of your friends' subjective tastes.
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Letterboxd is an incredible social media platform if you want to slowly, over time, become less and less respectful of your friends' subjective tastes.
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The next 20 selections in the #AFMI100 are out today.
I love THE INSULT.
Shocked TO A LAND UNKNOWN made the list considering the voting date cutoff. Might have climbed even higher than 46(!!) as more people got to watch it this year.
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I love THE INSULT.
Shocked TO A LAND UNKNOWN made the list considering the voting date cutoff. Might have climbed even higher than 46(!!) as more people got to watch it this year.
cinemayaat.com/the-greatest...
The Greatest Arab Films of All Time
In 2025, the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) asked hundreds of professional critics, academics, curators, and select filmmakers from over 20 countries to vote for the Greatest Arab Films of All T...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The next 20 selections in the #AFMI100 are out today.
I love THE INSULT.
Shocked TO A LAND UNKNOWN made the list considering the voting date cutoff. Might have climbed even higher than 46(!!) as more people got to watch it this year.
cinemayaat.com/the-greatest...
I love THE INSULT.
Shocked TO A LAND UNKNOWN made the list considering the voting date cutoff. Might have climbed even higher than 46(!!) as more people got to watch it this year.
cinemayaat.com/the-greatest...
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The U.S. trailer for Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s directorial debut #AUsefulGhost has arrived.
Watch ahead of a January 16 release for the Cannes winner and Thailand's Oscar entry: thefilmstage.com/a-useful-gho...
Watch ahead of a January 16 release for the Cannes winner and Thailand's Oscar entry: thefilmstage.com/a-useful-gho...
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I love how many Gothams winners/presenters are giving the Gothams shit for abandoning their indie standards. bsky.app/profile/vult...
After a shout-out to Francine Maisler, Delroy Lindo goes off-script by acknowledging that the Gothams were originally created to honor independent films, but he says that Coogler "is an independent filmmaker at heart."
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I love how many Gothams winners/presenters are giving the Gothams shit for abandoning their indie standards. bsky.app/profile/vult...
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Narrowing down the year’s best film performances to just 17 was pure torture, but I did it! bsky.app/profile/vult...
The year was so competitive that Stellan Skarsgård, Emma Stone, and Paul Mescal didn’t make the cut. Here are our favorite film performances of 2025.
The Best Film Performances of 2025
The year was so competitive that Stellan Skarsgård, Emma Stone, and Paul Mescal didn’t make the cut. Here are our favorite film performances of 2025.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Narrowing down the year’s best film performances to just 17 was pure torture, but I did it! bsky.app/profile/vult...
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With the full understanding that Stoppard’s most profound work was in his plays, I’d love to do a mini-marathon of his work in adapting novels into screenplays for movies of varying quality.
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
With the full understanding that Stoppard’s most profound work was in his plays, I’d love to do a mini-marathon of his work in adapting novels into screenplays for movies of varying quality.
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People got mad when I wrote about “Hamnet” setting up as the Oscar season villain because I guess they thought I was saying it deserved to be. I wasn’t, but seeing the tone of the negative reviews (amid a lot of positive reviews), I’m confident in saying I was right. www.vulture.com/article/osca...
The Year’s First Oscars Villain Has Arrived
Hamnet is emotional, feminine, directed by an Oscar winner. But it’s also not Sinners or One Battle After Another.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
People got mad when I wrote about “Hamnet” setting up as the Oscar season villain because I guess they thought I was saying it deserved to be. I wasn’t, but seeing the tone of the negative reviews (amid a lot of positive reviews), I’m confident in saying I was right. www.vulture.com/article/osca...
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Using Alexandre Desplat’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” score for a google Gemini ad is such obvious rage bait that I feel like a sucker being this mad about it but also fuck these people.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Using Alexandre Desplat’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” score for a google Gemini ad is such obvious rage bait that I feel like a sucker being this mad about it but also fuck these people.
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From the press kit of HARD TARGET:
Directed by John Woo, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen, and Wilford Brimley.
#filmsky
Directed by John Woo, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen, and Wilford Brimley.
#filmsky
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
From the press kit of HARD TARGET:
Directed by John Woo, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen, and Wilford Brimley.
#filmsky
Directed by John Woo, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen, and Wilford Brimley.
#filmsky
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Angela Lansbury's six highest-grossing movie roles:
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Angela Lansbury's six highest-grossing movie roles:
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Festival merch now available!
ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!
IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)
🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!
IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)
🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Festival merch now available!
ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!
IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)
🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!
IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)
🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
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I have spent far too much time in the past seven days trying to figure out whether people’s posts are taking the politics of the Wicked universe seriously for real or seriously for laffs.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I have spent far too much time in the past seven days trying to figure out whether people’s posts are taking the politics of the Wicked universe seriously for real or seriously for laffs.
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Some days I truly feel like I'm gonna go off the deep end and do a full "The Practice" rewatch. youtu.be/ZQyZ6uLzLUo?...
Intense Bobby Donnell
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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Some days I truly feel like I'm gonna go off the deep end and do a full "The Practice" rewatch. youtu.be/ZQyZ6uLzLUo?...
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A tradition like no other... @kateyrich.bsky.social joins us for our annual Thanksgiving week hunk parade on This Had Oscar Buzz! In this case, it's the drawling, murderous, charismatic preachers and vengeful sons of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A tradition like no other... @kateyrich.bsky.social joins us for our annual Thanksgiving week hunk parade on This Had Oscar Buzz! In this case, it's the drawling, murderous, charismatic preachers and vengeful sons of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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So good.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
So good.
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Caught up with del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN tonight. Is Mia Goth contractually obligated to play two roles every film now? It’s also another example of Letterboxd adding bespoke animation when logging a review.
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A ★★★★ review of Frankenstein (2025)
"What is pain if not evidence of intelligence?" It's funny that so many people think Guillermo del Toro made Jacob Elordi's Wretch "too sympathetic" as though he changed what Mary Shelley wrote rather...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Caught up with del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN tonight. Is Mia Goth contractually obligated to play two roles every film now? It’s also another example of Letterboxd adding bespoke animation when logging a review.
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Truly shocking to have that many Jeffs in ROOFMAN and not one Geoffrey the Giraffe joke. The restraint Derek Cianfrance showed is impressive.
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A ★★★½ review of Roofman (2025)
"The answer is forty-five." If only this film had come out in 2016, maybe the free exposure would have kept Toys "R" Us stores open in the US. I give Derek Cianfrance all the credit in the world for n...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Truly shocking to have that many Jeffs in ROOFMAN and not one Geoffrey the Giraffe joke. The restraint Derek Cianfrance showed is impressive.
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Hopefully the “FINAL” means this series can go back to strong storytelling without all the gymnastics to pretend like anyone cared whether the Rabbit’s Foot was anything but a one-off MacGuffin twenty years ago.
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A ★★★ review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
"Are you sure it's really me?" One might think my initial reaction to the first twenty minutes of this film being a thirty-year exposition dump would be regret for having just rewatched the fourteen-p...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hopefully the “FINAL” means this series can go back to strong storytelling without all the gymnastics to pretend like anyone cared whether the Rabbit’s Foot was anything but a one-off MacGuffin twenty years ago.
boxd.it/bNFoYF
boxd.it/bNFoYF