Critically Acclaimed #136 | Wilford Brimley, Host, Black is King, The Fight, Summerland, The Secret: Dare to Dream, I Married a Witch

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED is bursting with cinema this week!

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold say goodbye to the late, great Wilford Brimley and review Shudder's new supernatural/found footage/COVID-19 horror film HOST, Beyonce's Disney Plus visual concept album BLACK IS KING, the ACLU documentary THE FIGHT, Jessica Swale's World War II drama SUMMERLAND, and Katie Holmes learning the secret to life and love in THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM!

Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney explore René Clair's witty, stylish, romantic and weird I MARRIED A WITCH, starring Veronica Lake as a witch who accidentally falls in love with a man she's cursed!

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The Critically Acclaimed Oscars Preview Special 2020!

The Academy Awards are almost here, and film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here with their picks for who should win, and who actually will!  

Will Joker prevail over Parasite? Does Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stand a chance against 1917? And what about all those finicky technical awards and short subjects that lots of people in the audience (and maybe even some of the voters) know next to nothing about? 

You'll find out in THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED OSCARS PREVIEW SPECIAL 2020!

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Critically Acclaimed #112 | The Gentlemen, The Color Out of Space, What Did Jack Do?, The Last Full Measure

Guy Ritchie is back and he's doing Guy Ritchie things! David Lynch is back and he's doing David Lynch things! Richard Stanley is back and he's doing Richard Stanley things!  

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED (where we do "Critically Acclaimed" things!), film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new crime comedy THE GENTLEMEN, the unexpected David Lynch short film about a monkey interrogation WHAT DID JACK DO?, the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE, and the all-star military drama THE LAST FULL MEASURE!  

The Gentlemen - 4:49  
The Last Full Measure - 35:30  
What Did Jack Do? - 43:55  
The Color Out of Space - 52:58 

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Critically Acclaimed #111 | Dolittle, Fall from Grace, Underwater, The Grudge, Just Mercy, Like a Boss, Spies in Disguise, Corpus Christi, Les Miserables

We're back and we're catching up with the best, the worst and the weirdest new releases in January!  

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the Robert Downey Jr. disaster DOLITTLE, the death row drama JUST MERCY, Tyler Perry's death row drama A FALL FROM GRACE, the underwater monster movie UNDERWATER, the grudge movie THE GRUDGE, the animated kids flick SPIES IN DISGUISE, the buddy comedy LIKE A BOSS, the Oscar-nominated Polish drama CORPUS CHRISTI, and the Oscar-nominated French cop thriller LES MISERABLES!  

Dolittle - 5:33  
Just Mercy - 30:53  
A Fall from Grace - 40:32  
Underwater - 55:17  
The Grudge - 1:03:45  
Spies in Disguise - 1:16:37  
Like a Boss - 1:26:04  
Corpus Christi - 1:32:57  
Les Miserables - 1:40:11

Critically Acclaimed #110 | The Best Movies of the 2010s!

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold look back at an astoundingly great decade for film, and present their individual picks for the best movies of the 2010s! It's a giant episode full of great recommendations and controversial picks!

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The Iron List #3 | The Best January Movies Ever!

Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode! And this month, since it's December, they picked THE JANUARY MOVIES EVER!  

Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they highlight some of the weird genre films that Hollywood had no faith in whatsoever, which surprised the heck out of us by actually being really, really good!  

In other words... finally, an excuse to talk about MONSTER TRUCKS!

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The (Last) Two-Shot | All the Police Academy Movies!

Because YOU demanded it, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing all of the POLICE ACADEMY movies on this, the last-ever episode of THE TWO-SHOT!

This isn't just the last episode on the Movie House network, it's the last episode anywhere! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are saying goodbye to this long-running podcast by making a HUGE announcement about what their next project is, which you can only listen to at THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK, along with their other shows: CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, CANCELED TOO SOON, THE IRON LIST and WE'VE GOT MAIL!

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Critically Acclaimed #109 | The Worst Movies of 2019!

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold follow-up their list of THE BEST MOVIES OF 2019 with their list of THE WORST MOVIES OF 2019, full of films that deserve at least one last look from audiences, critics, studios and filmmakers, because we can all learn from their mistakes!  

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Critically Acclaimed #108 | The Best Movies of 2019!

It's not exaggeration to say that 2019 has been one of the most exciting years for movies in a long, long time. So what films managed to stand above the rest, and make CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED's lists of THE BEST MOVIES OF 2019...?

Listen to the latest episode to find out what film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold selected, from blockbuster genre films to acclaimed dramas to obscure films that hardly anybody else is talking about!

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Critically Acclaimed #97: Joker, Pain and Glory, In the Tall Grass and More!

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have moved their movie review show to THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK! 

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, they tackle the controversial blockbuster JOKER, Pedro Almodovar's celebrated PAIN AND GLORY, the latest Stephen King adaptation IN THE TALL GRASS, the video game movie sequel/remake DOOM: ANNIHILATION, the Natalie Portman astronaut drama LUCY IN THE SKY, the gritty young adventure LOW TIDE, and the Marine Corps. prison break drama SEMPER FI!

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Critically Acclaimed #94: Hustlers, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Letters and More!

Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu are strippers scamming stock market moguls in HUSTLERS, one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year! 

How fitting, then, that film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing this smash success, and also several indies including TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID, DEPRAVED, CHAINED FOR LIFE and ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE, and also answering your fan letters in an all-new episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!

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The Two-Shot: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and The Love Witch!

What if Hansel and Gretel were badass witch murderers with steam punk guns and snarky attitudes? You’d probably get something like HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as ultraviolent action heroes. 

Why did critics balk at this weird attempt to jumpstart an R-rated fantasy franchise, and why is it the perfect double feature with Anna Biller’s acclaimed horror comedy THE LOVE WITCH, about a young witch whose attempts to find love go horribly awry?

You’ll have to listen to THE TWO-SHOT to find out! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk about the best and worst of cinema, every single week! And this week they’re joined by fellow critic Liz Shannon Miller!

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Critically Acclaimed #93: Every Stephen King Movie, from Carrie to It: Chapter 2!

Stephen King has been dominating Hollywood for over 40 years, and in this very special episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every* theatrically-released adaptation of his work! 

That’s dozens of movies, and it’s all leading up to the eagerly awaited release of IT: CHAPTER 2! (We also review the new dance movie NEXT LEVEL, because that also opens this weekend.)

*Except one. Yeah, sorry, we forgot one and we didn't realize it until it was too late. But try to guess what we missed! We'll review it on the next episode to make up for the error.

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The Two-Shot: The Dark Tower and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T!

If you thought Stephen King’s THE DARK TOWER was hard to adapt, how do you make a movie out of the wild imagination of Dr. Seuss way back in the 1950s? 

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore why King’s movie went wrong, and why THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T gets Dr. Seuss just right, and may be one of the best fantasy movies you’ve never heard of!

It's an all-new episode of THE TWO-SHOT!

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Critically Acclaimed #92: Don't Let Go, Falling Inn Love, The Fanatic and More!

Did Hollywood shirk an age-old trend and release something, anything good in the last week of August? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold find out in an all-new episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, with reviews of "Don't Let Go," "The Fanatic," "Official Secrets," "Spider in the Web," "Falling Inn Love" and "Belzebuth!"

Plus, more fan mail, with topics ranging from "The Joker" to Gus Van Sant's "Psycho!"

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The Four-Shot: All the Breakin' Movies!

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO is the most famous subtitle in all of movie history, but have you ever actually seen the BREAKIN’ movies, and did you know there were technically FOUR of them?! We’re taking a look at all the films that captured the cultural zeitgeist of the mid-1980s in this all-new episode! 

Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! 

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Critically Acclaimed #91: Angel Has Fallen, Ready or Not and More!

Gerard Butler tries an American accent one more time and Samara Weaving cements her claim to horror superstardom in an all-new episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!

This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases "Angel Has Fallen," "Ready or Not," "Brittany Runs a Marathon," "American Factory" and "Jacob's Ladder." They also talk about Spider-Man's return to Sony and answer YOUR emails!

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Critically Acclaimed #90: Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, Good Boys, and Peter Fonda!

We’ve got TONS of new movie reviews on this week’s CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED podcast! 

Get ready, because film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are dissecting "Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus," "Good Boys," "47 Meters Down: Uncaged," "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?," "The Banana Splits Movie," "Gwen," "Cold Case Hammarskjold" and "Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles!" 

Also this week, Bibbs and Witney say goodbye to the late great movie star iconoclast Peter Fonda and the legendary animator Richard Williams, and read YOUR fan mail!

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The Two-Shot: Caddyshack II and The Rules of the Game!

CADDYSHACK II has often been called one of the worst sequels ever made... but not by us. In the latest episode of THE TWO-SHOT, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold compare "Caddyshack II" to the original comedy classic, and discover that the sequel is actually the better of the two!

And what's even crazier, they think "Caddyshack II" is the perfect double feature with Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, a film about class divides that, like "Caddyshack II," was originally criticized but now, unlike "Caddyshack II," is considered one of the best movies ever made!

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The Two-Shot: Faust: Love of the Damned and Max Max: Fury Road!

Not a lot of people talk about it, but Brian Yuzna's FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED is probably the most disgusting live-action superhero movie ever made! So why is this ultra-low budget film, about a guy who makes a deal with the devil to get Wolverine claws so he can behead people, the perfect double feature with George Miller's celebrated action classic MAD MAX: FURY ROAD?

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold guide you through a notorious misfire and an all-time classic every single week on THE TWO-SHOT!

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