Justin Lowe
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Film Critic & Entertainment Journalist: @THR.com @FilmmakerMagazine @CreativeScreen + More | @RottenTomatoes Top Critic | Member: @lafilmcritics.bsky.social @LAFilmCritics
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Director Rob Reiner’s impact on film spans seven decades and some of the most beloved movies ever made. THR rounds up his best films:
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December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Director Rob Reiner’s impact on film spans seven decades and some of the most beloved movies ever made. THR rounds up his best films:
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Thank you so much for following along as we selected our winners and runners-up for this year. You can see our complete results here: www.lafca.net/Years/2025.php
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Thank you so much for following along as we selected our winners and runners-up for this year. You can see our complete results here: www.lafca.net/Years/2025.php
Big win for Brazil's Oscar submission, the marvelous "O Agente Secreto," definitely one of the best films of the year!
Best Film Not in the English Language, Winner: THE SECRET AGENT #LAFCA
December 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Big win for Brazil's Oscar submission, the marvelous "O Agente Secreto," definitely one of the best films of the year!
Another win for OBAA - Can anything stop this awards run?!
Best Picture, Winner: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER #LAFCA
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Another win for OBAA - Can anything stop this awards run?!
So now we are getting around to the BIG prize categories. For ya'll on the lookout for bold-face names, an awards frontrunner is our Best Director winner...
Best Director, Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER #LAFCA
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
So now we are getting around to the BIG prize categories. For ya'll on the lookout for bold-face names, an awards frontrunner is our Best Director winner...
A remarkably scrappy and dynamic DIY indie is our Best Doc winner
Best Documentary/Nonfiction, Winner: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW #LAFCA
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A remarkably scrappy and dynamic DIY indie is our Best Doc winner
Best Screenplay goes to a foreign language film of incredible compassion and understanding
Best Screenplay, Winner: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT #LAFCA
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Best Screenplay goes to a foreign language film of incredible compassion and understanding
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Our selection for the Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award is Albert Serra’s AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE. #LAFCA grasshopperfilm.com/film/afterno...
Afternoons of Solitude
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December 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our selection for the Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award is Albert Serra’s AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE. #LAFCA grasshopperfilm.com/film/afterno...
Our Best Editing award goes to a true New York sports yarn...
Best Film Editing, Winner: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME #LAFCA
December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Our Best Editing award goes to a true New York sports yarn...
For all you EDM fans who haven't seen it yet, highly recommend our winner for Best Music Score SINNERS
Best Music Score, Winner: Kangding Ray, SIRĀT
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
For all you EDM fans who haven't seen it yet, highly recommend our winner for Best Music Score SINNERS
And we're off - @lafilmcritics.bsky.social voting begins with the Cine award going to TRAIN DREAMS!
Best Cinematography, Winner: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS #LAFCA
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And we're off - @lafilmcritics.bsky.social voting begins with the Cine award going to TRAIN DREAMS!
In only a couple of hours, @lafilmcritics.bsky.social begin voting on our 50th anni round of awards-winners. Join us to follow along with the action!
On Sunday, December 7, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association will be voting on the year's best films, performances and technical achievements. We'll be posting our winners and runners-up right here as they're announced.
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In only a couple of hours, @lafilmcritics.bsky.social begin voting on our 50th anni round of awards-winners. Join us to follow along with the action!
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‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Review: The Bikini Bottom Crew Triumphs in Another Rollicking Undersea Comedy
‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Review: The Bikini Bottom Crew Triumphs in Another Rollicking Undersea Comedy
Breathlessly enthusiastic trailers and cheeky online promotional campaigns (“This Christmas, They’re in Deep Ship”) have been popping up everywhere for the new SpongeBob SquarePants movie and it doesn’t even open until December 19. The enduring popularity of the long-running TV series and feature-film franchise with kids, teens, Gen Z and even Millennial fans would seem to make such intensive outreach almost unnecessary, perhaps even redundant.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Review: The Bikini Bottom Crew Triumphs in Another Rollicking Undersea Comedy
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The first official trailer for Korean maestro Park Chan-wook‘s pitch-black comedy thriller No Other Choice has arrived.
‘No Other Choice’: First Trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Latest Masterpiece Reveals a Korean Dad Driven to Darkness
The first official trailer for Korean maestro Park Chan-wook‘s pitch-black comedy thriller No Other Choice has arrived.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The first official trailer for Korean maestro Park Chan-wook‘s pitch-black comedy thriller No Other Choice has arrived.
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Daniel Day-Lewis has emerged from his retirement in a first-look photo of his new film, #Anemone. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Lewis’ son, Ronan Day-Lewis, and was co-written by both men. bit.ly/4fwXxZc
August 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Daniel Day-Lewis has emerged from his retirement in a first-look photo of his new film, #Anemone. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Lewis’ son, Ronan Day-Lewis, and was co-written by both men. bit.ly/4fwXxZc
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Hong Kong and global film icon Jackie Chan got a rapturous reception at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Saturday evening as he was honored with the Pardo alla Carriera, or Career Leopard award, on the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande square.
Jackie Chan Charms Locarno as He Receives Career Award: “I Am 71. I Still Can Fight”
Hong Kong and global film icon Jackie Chan got a rapturous reception at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Saturday evening as he was honored with the Pardo alla Carriera, or Career Leopard award, on the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande square.
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August 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hong Kong and global film icon Jackie Chan got a rapturous reception at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Saturday evening as he was honored with the Pardo alla Carriera, or Career Leopard award, on the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande square.
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M3GAN 2.0's box office performance is just the latest in a string of flops for Blumhouse. Can the Halloween season save them?
M3GAN 2.0's Very Bad Box Office Opening Raises Serious Concerns For The Future Of Blumhouse - SlashFilm
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July 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
M3GAN 2.0's box office performance is just the latest in a string of flops for Blumhouse. Can the Halloween season save them?
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Aaron Sorkin is plotting a return to Facebook. The screenwriter behind The Social Network has written a sequel script he intends to direct as a feature for Sony, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
‘Social Network’ Sequel in the Works With Aaron Sorkin Writing, Directing for Sony
Aaron Sorkin is plotting a return to Facebook. The screenwriter behind The Social Network has written a sequel script he intends to direct as a feature for Sony, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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June 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Aaron Sorkin is plotting a return to Facebook. The screenwriter behind The Social Network has written a sequel script he intends to direct as a feature for Sony, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Francis Ford Coppola is going on tour.
Francis Ford Coppola Is Taking ‘Megalopolis’ on Tour With Screenings and Q&As About the Future
Francis Ford Coppola is going on tour.
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June 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Francis Ford Coppola is going on tour.
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Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein’ Trailer Has Fans Clamoring for Theatrical Release
Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein’ Trailer Has Fans Clamoring for Theatrical Release
When it comes to producing exclusive movies, Netflix, in a way, cannot win.If the streamer makes a lousy movie, the project will be criticized for its quality.If the streamer makes what appears to be a fantastic movie, the company will be criticized for not releasing the movie in theaters. Call it the Road House paradox. (The sweet spot, it would seem, is to release movies that are perfectly watchable yet mediocre — which, coincidentally, Netflix does quite a bit).On Sunday, the streamer released the first teaser trailer for director Guillermo del Toro’s longtime passion project take on Frankenstein. The prospect of yet another adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel might seem wearisome, as there have been nearly 200 filmic versions of the tale already. Yet the trailer (below) looks absolutely stunning — and hugely cinematic. The film stars Oscar Isaac as the mad doctor, Jacob Elordi as his monster and Mia Goth as Victor’s fiancée and features a sumptuous visual feast of Victorian and Arctic imagery.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein’ Trailer Has Fans Clamoring for Theatrical Release