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The Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Kimi,’ ‘Spencer,’ ‘Looper,’ & More

February 22, 2022 6:01 pm

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spla...

The Nightmare Family Function Movies Of 2021 [Be Reel Podcast]

Chance Solem-Pfeifer

January 27, 2022 12:56 pm

News, Podcasts

While 2020 kept so many families painfully apart, three acclaimed indies from last year made the opposite case: "Why do I see these people again?" LISTEN: ‘The Fellowship Of The Ring’ At 20: Heralding An U...

LA Film Critics Select ‘Drive My Car’ As Best Film Of 2021

Gregory Ellwood

December 18, 2021 8:05 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The New York Film Critics Circle anointed "Drive My Car" as the Best Film of 2021 and now the West Coast critics have had their say. After almost six hours of overall deliberations, the Los Angeles Film Critic...

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2021

Andrew Crump, Rodrigo Perez and Andrew Bundy

December 16, 2021 3:26 pm

Features, News

“The movies are back, baby!” went the refrain this summer, up to, during, and continuously after the heavenly 10-day stretch around June where everything looked like it might really go back to normal, actual n...

The Best Cinematography Of 2021

Andrew Crump and The Playlist Staff

December 13, 2021 1:51 pm

Features, News

We celebrate the movies at this time of year, and in the wild rush to praise directors and actors for all that nifty directing and acting they did over the last 365 days, we all tend to forget that cinema is a...

The 25 Best Films Of 2021

Nick Allen and The Playlist Staff

December 8, 2021 1:09 pm

Features, News

We certainly have not resumed full normalcy as we continue to battle this pandemic, but at least we have movies—even more than last year. With certain reservations about how they were premiered, released, and ...

The Best Movie Trailers Of 2021

Ella Kemp

December 3, 2021 2:12 pm

Features, News

Do you hear that? Can you feel it underneath your seat? 2021 finally gave us the chance to return to cinemas, that rare gift where a handful of carefully curated trailers whets our appetites for the year ahead...

The Best Film Posters Of 2021

Ella Kemp

December 3, 2021 12:32 pm

Features, News

Spotting and scrutinizing movie posters this year has felt brand new – like seeing the world with fresh eyes as we rush back into cinemas and can once again place faith in the pictures we see, knowing we will,...

The Great Hunt For 10 Best Picture Nominees Continues [Contender Countdown]

Gregory Ellwood

November 12, 2021 10:05 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

There is a common refrain being heard around Hollywood these days and it's not one that will make the Academy happy (and, no, it's not about an Academy Museum which has only three floors of exhibits). As more ...

‘Spencer’ Director Pablo Larrain To Finish His Biopic Trilogy With Next Film But Isn’t Saying Who It’ll Be About

Charles Barfield

November 4, 2021 12:36 pm

News

With “Spencer” arriving this week and receiving a ton of awards buzz already, you would think that filmmaker Pablo Larrain might want to keep making these female-led biopics for the rest of his career. His pre...

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