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  • The 2025 Portland Critics Association (PCA) Winners

    The 2025 Portland Critics Association (PCA) Winners

    The Portland Critics Association (PCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… Best PictureMarty SupremeNo Other ChoiceOne Battle After Another (WINNER)Sinners (RUNNER-UP)Sorry, BabyTrain Dreams Best DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (WINNER)Clint Bentley, Train DreamsRyan Coogler, Sinners (RUNNER-UP)Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An AccidentPark Chan-wook,…


  • NBP Top 10 Best Films Of 2025 – Matt Neglia

    NBP Top 10 Best Films Of 2025 – Matt Neglia

    2025 was the first full calendar year I had without my previous day job, and I must admit, it was the most challenging year I’ve ever had running NBP. From the workload to the increasing financial pressure, the industry continues to struggle post-COVID in ways that make it almost impossible for anyone to make a…


  • The 2025 Alliance Of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) EDA Award Winners

    The 2025 Alliance Of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) EDA Award Winners

    Since 2006, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) has presented annual EDA Awards, representing professional women critics’ collective perspectives on movies and cinema culture in the movie awards arena, where female critics and critical opinion are still greatly underrepresented. AWFJ honors female creatives in non-gender specific awards categories and in unique Female Focus categories…


  • The 2025 New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) Winners

    The 2025 New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) Winners

    The New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… Best PictureHamnetIt Was Just An AccidentMarty SupremeNo Other ChoiceOne Battle After Another (WINNER)The Secret AgentSentimental ValueSinners (RUNNER-UP)Train DreamsWeapons Best DirectorChloé Zhao – HamnetPark Chan-wook – No Other ChoicePaul Thomas Anderson – One…


  • The 2025 UK Film Critics Association (UKFCA) Winners

    The 2025 UK Film Critics Association (UKFCA) Winners

    The Film Critics Association UK (UKFCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… 2025 Film of the Year One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Sinners Sorry, Baby Weapons Best Director  Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Kaouther Ben Hania – The Voice of Hind Rajab Paul Thomas…


  • The Best New Television Shows Of 2025

    The Best New Television Shows Of 2025

    2025 brought us a lot of change: some good (everybody’s having “a few small beers,”) but some bad (why does it take three clicks to save a screenshot now, Tim Cook?!). Every year, studios and streamers hope to strike gold in launching new television shows that take home Emmys and will be included in everyone’s…


  • The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Song Sung Blue”

    The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Song Sung Blue”

    For this week’s second podcast review, Ema Sasic and Dan Bayer join me to discuss the latest film from Craig Brewer, “Song Sung Blue” starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, Hudson Hensley & John Beckwith. Based on the 2008 documentary film of the same name by Greg…


  • Can We Have A Dialogue, Please? Here’s How “Bugonia” Could Land At The Oscars

    Can We Have A Dialogue, Please? Here’s How “Bugonia” Could Land At The Oscars

    Are we underestimating five-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Bugonia” at the 98th Oscars? The next few weeks of major precursors — namely the PGA/SAG award nominations and BAFTA Longlists — will determine what the industry thinks of Lanthimos’s surreal tragicomedy. Driven by towering performances and a peculiar screenplay, “Bugonia” follows extreme opposing viewpoints into a…