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Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold host a series of ongoing shows, featuring CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED (new movie reviews), THANK GODZILLA IT'S FRIDAY, CANCELED TOO SOON, WE'VE GOT MAIL, THE IRON LIST, and more!
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Is YouTube the future of cinema? Are we too cavalier with our STAR TREK spoilers? What piece of movie memorabilia do Bibbs and Witney want most? Which truly obscure cult movies have yet to be discovered? What does Gibbs really think about Paul W.S. Anderson movies? And is Jay Sherman, aka THE CRITIC, actually a good critic?Bibbs and Witney are answering YOUR emails in an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL, and this one's a doozy! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Because YOU demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY EVER!It's a nearly three-hour, audio-only podcast in which two film critics describe really cool-looking things that you can't see while they're talking! We may not have thought this through, but we're going to try to make it work, and tell you about some truly gorgeous motion pictures in the process!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney run down the 98th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS nominations, then get to reviewing the pro-dystopia sci-fi film MERCY, the soulful post-apocalyptic zombie movie 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, the Matt Damon/Ben Affleck cop movie THE RIP, the sex-with-vacuum-cleaners movie A USEFUL GHOST, the multigenerational puzzle box SOUND OF FALLING, and the weepy falconry drama H IS FOR HAWK!The 98th Annual Oscars - 5:30 Mercy - 34:11 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - 51:45 The Rip - 1:05:55 A Useful Ghost - 1:17:55 Sound of Falling - 1:25:03 H is for Hawk - 1:32:43 Review Round-Up - 1:41:40Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review the Oscar hopeful MARTY SUPREME, the killer chimpanzee movie PRIMATE, the not-so-killer snake movie ANACONDA, the colonial musical THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, Jim Jarmusch's FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, the post-apocalyptic thriller GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION, Gus Van Sant's 1970s thriller DEAD MAN'S WIRE, the creepy bullying film THE PLAGUE, the Palestinian generational drama ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU, and the high-concept theater adaptation THE DUTCHMAN!Marty Supreme - 8:39 Primate - 28:07 Anaconda - 43:20 The Testament of Ann Lee - 1:00:45 Song Sung Blue - 1:13:05 Father Mother Sister Brother - 1:23:00 Greenland 2: Migration - 1:31:23 Dead Man's Wire - 1:41:35 The Plague - 1:51:25 All That's Left of You - 2:02:45 The Dutchman - 2:08:45 Review Round-Up - 2:16:20Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney answer YOUR letters and emails in an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL!This time, we're talking about our favorite real-life road trips, the unsung filmography of animation legend Don Bluth, movies we may have defended a little too much, and offering backup to a listener's grandmother, who really, really, really wants her grandson to watch THE TOWERING INFERNO!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
We talked about the best movies of the year for three whole hours! So here's another 2+ hours, all about THE WORST AND MOST AVERAGE MOVIES OF 2025!So much talking! So much movies! So much worseness! So much meh!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold were going to present their picks for THE BEST MOVIES OF 2025, THE WORST MOVIES OF 2025 and THE AVERAGEST MOVIE OF 2025, but the "Best Of" part is three-hours long, so now the podcast is an epic two-parter!It's an in-depth look at the greatest films 2025 had to offer, from a wide variety of genres, and Bibbs and Witney don't actually agree on a lot of them! Disagreements, ahoy!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
1This week, Bibbs and Witney review the epic sci-fi threequel AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney's darkly comic thriller THE HOUSE MAID, James L. Brooks's long-awaited return ELLA MCCAY, a oceanic documentary called THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS, Kate Winslet's directorial debut GOODBYE JUNE, the slasher horror remake SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT, Mamoru Hosoda's revisionist Hamlet fantasy SCARLET, the thriller sequel INFLUENCERS and Joe Carnahan's maritime disaster drama NOT WITHOUT HOPE!Avatar: Fire and Ash - 5:50 The Housemaid - 39:55 Ella McCay - 51:00 The Spongebob Movie: Search for Square Pants - 1:02:37 Goodbye June - 1:13:52 Silent Night Deadly Night - 1:22:40 Scarlet - 1:37:45 Influencers - 1:45:50 Not Without Hope - 1:51:55 Review Round-Up - 1:58:45 Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney answer YOUR emails in this all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, and talk about all-night movie marathons, cozy movies we forgot, surprising anecdotes about Walter Keane and more, more, MORE!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for the best THIS HAD OSCAR BUZZ movies ever!These aren't just movies that had Oscar buzz, these are movies specifically featured on the long-running, awesome podcast THIS HAD OSCAR BUZZ, where Chris Feil and Joe Reid explore movies that people thought would get an Oscar nomination but, for one reason or another, didn't!They've released over 370 awesome episodes so far and you should totally check them out! (They also have their own PATREON!)Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review the new Brazilian political thriller THE SECRET AGENT, the horror video game movie sequel FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, the filmed version of the Tony Award-winning revival of Steven Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Kristen Stewart's directorial debut THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, Michael Showalter's all-star ensemble Christmas movie OH. WHAT. FUN., the wacky spoof of snooty British movies and tv FACKHAM HALL, the queer graphic novel adaptation 100 NIGHTS OF HERO, and the bleak tragedy ROSEMEAD starring Lucy Liu!The Secret Agent - 4:48 Five Nights at Freddy's 2 - 21:37 Merrily We Roll Along - 47:12 The Chronology of Water - 1:02:05 Oh. What. Fun. - 1:12:18 Fackham Hall - 1:25:35 100 Nights of Hero - 1:33:55 Rosemead - 1:42:03 Review Round-Up - 1:52:45Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review Rian Johnson's latest all-star whodunnit WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, Chloé Zhao's historical weepy HAMNET, Disney's animated sequel ZOOTOPIA 2, and the Netflix holiday rom-com/crime caper hybrid JINGLE BELL HEIST!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney are back with their picks for THE COZIEST MOVIES EVER MADE!But what, pray tell, makes a movie "cozy?" It's not a well-defined genre, and as much as warm hearths and fuzzy sweaters seem to define the vibe, there's more to coziness than creature comforts.Bibbs and Witney (and especially Witney) push the boundaries of what "cozy" really means, as they come up with their own Top Ten lists on... THE IRON LIST!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review WICKED: FOR GOOD, the Brendan Fraser drama RENTAL FAMILY, the Eurospy throwback REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, the action sequel SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE and the Netflix rom-com CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS!(UPDATE: It has come to our attention that we accidentally misgendered filmmaker Hikari in this episode. We apologize for this extreme oversight and we will not make this mistake in the future.)Wicked: For Good - 2:00Rental Family - 32:00Reflection in a Dead Diamond - 43:15Sisu: Road to Revenge - 55:55Champagne Problems - 1:06:20Review Round-Up - 1:14:55Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review a great big pile o' new releases, including Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation THE RUNNING MAN, the magic heist threequel NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T, Richard Linklater's ode to Jean-Luc Godard (and Godard's ego) NOUVELLE VAGUE, the French animated time travel story ARCO, the Australian animated lesbian space princess story LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, Osgood Perkins' cabin in the woods thriller KEEPER, the biblical Nicolas Cage horror movie THE CARPENTER'S SON, the Jonas Brothers Christmas movie A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS MOVIE, and the Alicia Silverstone Christmas movie A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS!The Running Man - 9:55 Now You See Me: Now You Don't - 36:30Nouvelle Vague - 47:18Arco - 1:00:48Lesbian Space Princess - 1:14:26Keeper - 1:24:50The Carpenter's Son - 1:39:10A Very Jonas Christmas Movie - 1:48:48A Merry Little Ex-Mas - 1:57:13Review Round-Up - 2:05:33Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review the new sci-fi sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS, the new international ensemble drama SENTIMENTAL VALUE, Yorgos Lanthimos' kidnapping thriller BUGONIA, the historical legal drama NUREMBERG, Lynne Ramsay's latest DIE MY LOVE, Colin Farrell's gambling woes in BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, the Netflix animated kids flick IN YOUR DREAMS, and the Sydney Sweeney boxing biopic CHRISTY!Predator: Badlands - 5:55 Sentimental Value - 33:53 Bugonia - 47:35 Nuremberg - 58:18 Die, My Love - 1:08:10 Ballad of a Small Player - 1:22:23 In Your Dreams - 1:35:07 Christy - 1:41:41 Review Round-Up - 1:55:45Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney are back and answering YOUR letters and emails about Siskel and Ebert, UCLA Film School, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, and yes, even Heathcliff! The cat! Really It's a whole, cool thing!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney love movie marathons, and they've each programmed an awesome all-nighter for Halloween 2025!Welcome to THE ALL-NIGHTER, a new thing we're trying! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold each concoct their own perfect all-night movie marathon, with movies and shorts and TV episodes designed to give you the ultimate holiday experience, starting with a scary movie creeptacular for Halloween!Who came up with the best all-night Halloween movie night? You'll have to let us know!If you like this podcast, let us know! It won't be a regular weekly or bi-weekly staple at the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK, but we might do more episodes for special holidays and other popular observances and anniversaries.Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bibbs and Witney review Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN, Scott Derrickson’s supernatural sequel BLACK PHONE 2, film critic Chris Stuckmann’s directorial debut SHELBY OAKS, Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear thriller A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, Netflix’s animated Roald Dahl adaptation THE TWITS, the hit anime film CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, Nia DaCosta’s updated Henrik Ibsen adaptation HEDDA, Michelle Garza Cervera’s remake of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, and Tina Romero’s queer zombie comedy QUEENS OF THE DEAD!Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein - 6:45 Black Phone 2 - 34:20 Shelby Oaks - 48:28 A House of Dynamite - 1:04:35 The Twits - 1:21:20 Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc - 1:38:13 Hedda - 1:50:10 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - 1:59:55 Queens of the Dead - 2:10:18 Review Round-Up - 2:18:16 Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The podcast where Bibbs and Witney track down and play retro movie and television tabletop games on the air is back! We got a lot of positive feedback about THIS AIN'T NO GAME, so we're keeping it around a while.This time they go head to head in STAR TREK: THE GOLDEN TRIVIA GAME, released in 1985, covering the entire original series and the first three movies! And we gotta warn you, these questions are HARD.Listen up as Bibbs and Witney suffer one ignominious failure after another, and find out if Witney can continue his winning streak, after he obliterated Bibbs last episode, in TRIVIAL PURSUIT: SILVER SCREEN EDITION!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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