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Robert Daniels

2 months

I have wrote about it. I have slept on it. I'm still not sure Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR, worked for me. My #SXSW2024 review via @Screendaily

‘Civil War’: SXSW Review

Kirsten Dunst plays a photojournalist facing the horrors of an American civil war in Alex Garland's new dystopian thriller

www.screendaily.com

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Robert Daniels

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6 months

Robert Pattinson is one of the few major actors who understands that animated films require you to vocally work within the character.

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6 months

Robert Pattinson makes his voice acting debut as The Gray Heron in Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’

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10 months

Their job is beach

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4 years

I hate the word "stan." But I'm stanning the entire PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE team for walking out because of Polanski's Best Director win at the César Awards.

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

The Academy dead ass looked at Lupita Nyong'o and said, "We prefer you as a slave."

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4 years

I wish more creatives realized that what Jordan Peele did with Get Out and Us wasn't easy.

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10 months

Are Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele the only directors of their generation that one might consider a household name?

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2 years

Gonna go cry now.

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1 year

I’ve never seen an entire list get invalidated on one omission so quickly in my life.

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1 year

Céline Dion was not included on Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Singers of All Time list.

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2 years

This was one of the worst Oscars (if not the worst) in its history. Everything was disgraceful, top to bottom: the creative decisions, the bits, the tasteless in memoriam, the production and editing. #oscars

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4 years

A friend of mine found a wooden mask in a harbor. It takes him over and makes him green, loud, and mischievous. His wardrobe is now entirely made up of zoot suits, and his dog is worried abot him. This madness can't be allowed to go on.

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Robert Daniels

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4 months

Part of the reason we’re short on movie stars isn’t necessarily because of a lack of talent. Filmmakers have forgotten how to introduce and frame an actor into a star. No one knows how to introduce an actor anymore. They just do a bland medium shot and keep it going.

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4 months

the zoom that changed everything

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Robert Daniels

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2 months

When a filmmaker gets that blank check I will always prefer them making something like BABYLON as opposed to whatever milquetoast idea they think will help them continue getting that check.

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Damien Chazelle Admits ‘Babylon’ ‘Didn’t Work at All’ Financially and Worries Next Film Might Not Get Made

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4 years

The picture of Chris Evans I actually care about.

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6 months

Nothing worse than an actor with a bland voice casually using that same voice in the studio. You gotta put some flavor on it!

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3 years

Way too many people discount the brilliance of DREAMGIRLS.

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3 years

When COMING 2 AMERICA drops in March, it will mark James Earl Jones’ seventh decade of cinematic acting, which began with DR. STRANGELOVE. By including his theater career, it’ll be his eighth decade acting, too. Which first blossomed at the Cort Theater on Broadway in 1958. 👑

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4 years

Four years later, Barry Jenkins' MOONLIGHT remains the tenderest, most human presentation of Black characters, who in any other film, would've been reduced to cliches. I've never watched MOONLIGHT and not cried. It is the definition of the personal made universal.

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3 years

More movies about sensitive Black men, please.

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4 years

John Boyega is doing what Star Wars wouldn't. For my @Polygon debut, I explain how Star Wars could've adapted the tradition of Black resistance to make Finn into a different type of hero:

John Boyega is doing what Star Wars wouldn’t

A franchise about resistance has repeatedly overlooked the Black experience

www.polygon.com

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Robert Daniels

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7 months

Apart from the kinetic chemistry between Pullman and Bullock, no one shoots like this anymore either (from blocking to composition). Pullman coming closer and the camera just holding, allowing the electricity of the scene to increase.

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7 months

Everything that’s missing from modern romantic comedies can be found right here.

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Lots of gum smacking from an organization that still counts Mel Gibson as a proud member.

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Robert Daniels

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1 year

Another year: Halle Berry is still the only Black woman who’s won Best Actress. SELMA is still the only film directed by a Black woman to be nominated for Best Picture. A Black Director has never won Best Director; a and a Black woman has never been nominated. #Oscars2023

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2 years

THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME remains a criminally underrated film.

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Robert Daniels

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3 years

Do you ever think about Tessa Thompson’s 2018?

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Robert Daniels

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6 months

@doug_1399 Ewan McGregor, Jamie Foxx, Maya Rudolph, and Bill Hader are some that come to mind!

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." -Albus Dumbledore

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4 years

Daniel Radcliffe said “transgender women are women” in a lengthy response to J.K. Rowling’s transphobic tweets: “Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people”

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4 years

A cop kneeling means nothing to me. Report your abusive buddies, first. Then I might care.

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1 year

Considering how many Black films weren’t recognized this year, and a high probability that a Black person wont receive an award tonight… probably not the best idea to make the running bit of the show making fun of the Black person who did win last year. #Oscars

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

A white director weaponizing his followers and knowingly falsely accusing two women of color of something they didn't do. This SHOULD be a bigger story.

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

It’s always gonna be this

Luke Hearfield 🔜 Cannes 🎥

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2 years

What Oscar snub had you feeling like this?

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Robert Daniels

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1 year

A reminder: No Black woman has ever been nominated for Best Director by the Academy Awards. I’m just sayin, Gina Prince-Bythewood is sitting right there with THE WOMAN KING.

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3 years

This is what happens when you value “content” above all else.

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2 years

When Bruce Willis was on it, there were few who were better. An under appreciated dramatic force, an unlikely comedic presence, a sterling leading man. He could do anything and did everything in the movies. I’m going to miss seeing him on the silver screen.

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2 years

THE IRISHMAN and THE POWER OF THE DOG combining for only one Oscar win is wild.

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2 years

Four years ago today, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK had its World Premiere at TIFF

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

FIELD OF DREAMS. GOODFELLAS. SOMETHING WILD. NARC. COPLAND. KILLING THEM SOFTLY. THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES. MARRIAGE STORY. NO SUDDEN MOVE. That was Ray Liotta.

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4 years

I'm sorry y'all, my empathy for him died with 200k+ others.

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4 months

I do find it fascinating how much MAY DECEMBER has broken the brains of people who want movies to only be one thing, squeaky clean, without any introspection, difficulty, or interpretation.

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3 years

Look, I’m obsessed with THE CROWN. But casting Dominic West as Prince Charles is the dictionary definition of a stretch

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3 years

I’m screaming. “You’ll have to ask them” **points to the white directors** why they don’t cast more poc.

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

A Blood till the end.

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1 year

Following yesterday’s Academy Award nominations, for @latimes , I wrote about how it’s not just the Academy failing Black women, it’s the entire awards ecosystem.

It's not just the Oscars that fail Black women. It's the entire awards ecosystem

From critics groups to the guilds to the Academy Awards, Hollywood's highest honors continue to overlook Black women — eight years after #OscarsSoWhite.

www.latimes.com

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4 months

I don’t see MAY DECEMBER as any different from the myriad of films, books, and songs by writers who took inspiration from a newspaper article. There is a difference between modeling and straight up adaptation. The former happened. The latter did not.

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

On most days, I remember that THE FAREWELL didn't get any Oscar noms and then I get angry all over again.

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Robert Daniels

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3 years

So ummm yesterday, this happened: I visited the @Criterion closet. Dreams do come true!!

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Chris Pine is going to have a great career once he ages out of leading man roles into being a character actor.

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Glad Peter Weir is gonna receive an Honorary Oscar. His four best director noms: WITNESS, DEAD POETS SOCIETY, THE TRUMAN SHOW, and MASTER AND COMMANDER are an embarrassment of riches. Extremely well deserving of an honor that shouldn’t have been elusive.

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2 years

The dissonance is also interesting. Netflix has a reputation for not being a theatrically driven studio. But it’s two best chances at Best Picture — Roma and The Power of the Dog — are the pure definitions of movies imbued with a cinematic spirit. Movies clearly made for theaters

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2 years

Parasite is now the first film to hit one million ratings on Letterboxd—57% of them five stars. 🍑

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Robert Daniels

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6 months

@TheOnionKnight He’s the pelican. Not the heron.

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4 years

STOP 👏 TRASHING 👏 MOVIES 👏 YOU 👏 HAVEN'T 👏 SEEN 👏 YET 👏

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Ncuti Gatwa is so good on SEX EDUCATION, a lightning rod of charm and comedic timing. A star from the moment he popped on screen. He’s going to be phenomenal as the next Doctor. #DoctorWho

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4 years

No lie. I thought Colin Farrell was Richard Kind.

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

Zendaya and Jeremy Pope don't equal the future. They equal the very much now. Treat them like it Hollywood.

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Robert Daniels

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3 years

“Well I’m simply saying, can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone?” Moreno responded. That’s such a damming quote, and I’m totally disappointed with Rita Moreno.

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Rita Moreno Defends Lin-Manuel Miranda Over ‘In the Heights’ Colorism Criticism: ‘You Can Never Do Right’

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2 years

Also, there’s a difference between a vanity project and a passion project. THE IRISHMAN is clearly the latter.

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3 years

Begging directors to learn how to light black skin. Absolutely begging.

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

If Marvel is handing over multi-billion franchises to talented diverse indie directors like Taika Waititi, Nia DaCosta, Chloé Zhao, Ryan Coogler, and Destin Daniel Cretton then no other studio has an excuse to not open up their purses.

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3 years

A 50% off sale My bank account

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4 years

With SXSW now cancelled, my heart goes out to every indie filmmaker and the publicity teams for them. Some of them REALLY needed the premiere and the press.

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Robert Daniels

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3 years

Found a picture of the critic who wrote the negative CITIZEN KANE review

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7 months

I do find it fascinating how much Hollywood struggles depicting the Midwest.

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Guys - I love #TheBatman so much. Haven’t been this enthralled by a comic book movie in ages.

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4 years

We're going to take this very slowly. 1. Please stop killing us 2. Stop removing episodes and pop culture relics as if it fixes #1 3. Please stop killing us 4. Hire us. But also, please stop killing us

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Glad she apologized but seeing people on here being dismissive of Black folks’ deserved anger over her remarks is another sign that the promises people made a couple summers ago to be better on race has still not come to fruition.

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2 years

Jane Campion Apologizes for ‘Thoughtless Comment’ About Venus and Serena Williams

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3 years

Lol Netflix really about to let DA 5 BLOODS become another DOLEMITE to prop up TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7. Ok.

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Robert Daniels

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5 years

BOOKSMART only made $2.5 mill during its Friday opening. You vote with your pocketbook. Right now, there's a phenomenal generational film out there. People, friends, and some enemies, I'm begging you to go see it this weekend.

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4 years

Who's gonna tell Ana de Armas...?

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

From GUNS AKIMBO to allyship, and our respective culpability—this past weekend still doesn't feel real. via @ebertvoices , I wrote about the way forward, and how I came to the decision to rescind my pull quote:

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Robert Daniels

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4 years

Nia DaCosta and Cathy Yan’s ascent into major studio projects like BIRDS OF PREY and CANDYMAN is only surprising bc white male directors have routinely had that career trajectory after a great indie. Women of color? Never. That's progress that needs supporting at the box office.

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10 months

@anthonyremedy Once again, I’m baking what BARBIE is clearly about to become into this statement.

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3 years

It’s real: @Criterion has asked me to write the liner notes essay for Cary Fukunaga’s BEASTS OF NO NATION. I’m so deeply honored to be granted this opportunity.

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3 years

Movies you could be talking about.

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Robert Daniels

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9 months

Stephen King is part of the BABYLON hive?!

Stephen King

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Maybe this says more about me than the film, but I thought BABYLON was utterly brilliant--extravagant, over the top, hilarious, thought-provoking. Might be one of those movies that reviews badly and is acclaimed as a classic in 20 years.

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4 years

It blows my mind that a prestige director like Spike Lee has never been given a budget over $45 mill. smdh

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4 years

Some of you guys are confusing yourselves as the target demo of Mulan.

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2 years

Emma Thompson hasn't had an Oscar nom in over 25 years, and I think we as a society deserve every bad thing that's come to us.

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

Keanu Reeves gives one of his best performances in THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS. Him and Carrie-Anne Moss still have that magic chemistry, carrying a gorgeous, dynamic film that's rough in patches yet still discovers great additions in Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jessica Henwick.

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3 years

Give Daniel Kaluuya his rom-com already cowards!!!

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3 years

Imagine seeing the sex scene in IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK and being like, Naw fam. We didn’t need that.

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3 years

Traumatic events happen in THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, but that doesn’t make it a traumatic series. That distinction is imperative when examining the show.

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2 years

This is god damn wholesome. I kinda want David Lynch to now have a Bob Ross style show.

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Robert Daniels

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1 year

Really telling to see THE WOMAN KING missing from so many end of the year lists. In a year where everyone is intent on rewarding spectacle, that film has been “conveniently” forgotten about as though only one Black film offered show-stopping cinematic wonderment.

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4 years

Did i purposely miss my train to catch the holiday one? Yes, yes I did.

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5 months

So much contemporary criticism is fangless. In fact, criticism has never been kinder to creatives than it is now. What’s happening to Angelica only reinforces the present-day impulse to either soften or obfuscate critical writing for fear of reprisal.

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5 months

After watching #TheColorPurple a second time, I’ve come to the conclusion that we really need to talk more about how no matter the role, no matter the film, Corey Hawkins understands the assignment.

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3 years

Two black series — Small Axe and The Underground Railroad — treated black people as three-dimensional humans, and the Emmys gave them dust.

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3 years

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM features the best performance of Chadwick Boseman’s career. He’s vibrant. Energetic. Shattered. And holds this stagey production together. Viola Davis is great, as usual, but it’s Boseman’s showcase from beginning to end.

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3 years

No one could have made THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, except Barry Jenkins. He makes Cora’s arduous story not one of dehumanization, but re-humanization. My review via @polygon

Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is a full-force triumph

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning fantasy novel soars onscreen

www.polygon.com

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4 years

People keep mentioning range, and I'm not sure they know what the word means because...This is actually it.

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2 years

Of all the things you could ask Jane Campion about… I really hate the abject laziness shown by people who are granted unfettered access.

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2 years

THE FABELMANS

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Robert Daniels

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2 years

If Aunjanue Ellis wins Best Supporting Actress tonight it’ll be considered an upset. But it shouldn’t be. She does so much with her screen time in KING RICHARD, adding greater texture than what was on paper. Next to the amazing Saniyya Sidney, she’s the heartbeat of the film.

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3 years

Look. PAIN AND GLORY does, in fact, have one of the best endings ever.

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8 months

As is often good say, some personal news: I’m thrilled to join the team as Associate Editor. It’s almost too simplistic to feel, but I’m speechless.

Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert

www.rogerebert.com

Chaz

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Today, we are pleased to welcome Robert Daniels ( @812filmreviews ) as the new Associate Editor of the Roger Ebert site!

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I’m just going to leave my @vulture piece, here. It’s what I wrote the day the Emmy nominations were announced and SMALL AXE, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, and THE GOOD LORD BIRD didn’t show up as much as they should have.

When Presented With a Black Gaze, the Emmys Turned Away

This year’s nominations struggled to recognize works that approach Black stories as three-dimensional portraits, rather than blunt, thematic hammers.

www.vulture.com

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Harrison Ford in THE AGE OF ADALINE is so astounding. For an actor whose last twenty years has been filled with some low valleys with regards to his films, his work here stands out. It's a peak-level performance.

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2 years

These two performances — Antonio Banderas in Pain & Glory and Penelope Cruz in Parallel Mothers — are gifts. Gonna hold them close to my heart.

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4 years

Tom Cruise in his head: "This might just be my most dangerous stunt yet."

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Soderbergh isnt a bad person (he gambled. He lost. Simple). I don’t think Hopkins and McDormand weren’t deserving (they gave incredible performances). And yet, last night’s production is deserved of some criticism and the Academy has a historic problem awarding Black leads.

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