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It's one of the best weekends for new movies in years! But also UNFROSTED came out! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix comedy, the Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt action-comedy THE FALL GUY, Jane Schoenbrun's incredible new film I SAW THE TV GLOW, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's contemplative EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, the animated French sci-fi noir MARS EXPRESS, and the horror flick TAROT! Unfrosted - 2:29 The Fall Guy - 31:28 I Saw the TV Glow - 44:18 Evil Does Not Exist - 1:09:30 Mars Express - 1:21:32 Tarot - 1:31:24 Review Round-Up - 1:41:51 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla conquers planet Earth and humanity flees into outer space! And when they come back 20,000 years later Godzilla is still there, and bigger and scarier than ever! It's GODZILLA: PLANET OF THE MONSTERS, the first film in a whole trilogy of anime Godzilla films! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

UPDATE: While discussing the film "Late Night with the Devil" in this episode, Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani had a debate about the film's (brief) use of A.I. art, in which Witney was sympathetic with the filmmakers since they were working on a budget. It has been less-than 12 hours since this episode was recorded and Witney wants everyone to know he's changed his mind, writing "Golly, I was very wrong last night. I regret ever thinking that A.I. had a part of any future that's not bleak and dystopian." This week, Bibbs and Witney go to court with Luca Guadagnino's CHALLENGERS, act worldly with the action bonanza BOY KILLS WORLD, get festive with the spider thriller INFESTED, and spend their late night with the devil in LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL! Challengers - 4:41 Boy Kills World - 24:24 Infested - 41:57 Late Night with the Love - 51:56 Review Round-Up - 1:09:27 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST 24-HOUR MOVIES EVER! These are the films that take place entirely (or almost entirely) in a single day, and experience the humor, drama, horror, suspense, and more! It's nearly 2 1/2 hours of motion picture recommendations from Bibbs and Witney! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! King Kong gets transformed into an extended metaphor for the Vietnam War and fights a buncha weird stuff in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, the second film in the Legendary Monsterverse! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney are back and they're reviewing movies! MOVIES, WE TELL YOU!!! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, it's a smorgasbord of cinema, including Alex Garland;s CVIL WAR, the horror comedy ABIGAIL, the space opera REBEL MOON - PART 2: THE SCARGIVER, the sasquatch movie SASQUATCH SUNSET, the Guy Ritchie WIII caper THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, the Nicolas Cage monster movie ARCADIAN, and the giant spider movie STING! CIVIL WAR - 2:22 ABIGAIL - 29:17 REBEL MOON - PART 2: THE SCARGIVER - 42:33 SASQUATCH SUNET - 1:01:58 THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE - 1:10:36 IN FLAMES - 1:20:44 ARCADIAN - 1:26:52 STING - 1:32:44 REVIEW ROUND-UP - 1:40:13 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla has fought giant moths, three-headed dragons, robot doppelgangers, and even a clump of smog, but in SHIN GODZILLA he's finally met his match: bureaucracy! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney are answering YOUR emails on an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL! This time, they're debating what gives an action sequence its impact, reminiscing about naugahyde, learning about video game criticism, and looking back at "twin" movies like DEEP IMPACT and ARMAGEDDON to decide which highly similar film was better! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Legendary Monsterverse begins with Gareth Edwards' GODZILLA, a film that took Godzilla so seriously that he barely shows up in it. But at least it's got Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche... for a few minutes... 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Monsters! Nuns! Monkeys! Clowns! Put them all together and you get,,, monunkeyowns! But also, you get the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, THE FIRST OMEN, MONKEY MAN and THE PEOPLE'S JOKER! Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - 3:10 The First Omen - 26:08 Monkey Man - 41:55 The People's Joker - 57:30 Review Round-Up - 1:16:52 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Millennium Era comes to an epic end with GODZILLA: FINAL WARS, an X-Men movies crossed with The Matrix that gets bored of nu metal human fights after an hour and decides to become a Godzilla movie! Godzilla fights most of his greatest nemeses and even a few of his friends, in a film that would close out the franchise for ten whole years! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney used to do hour-long filmmaker interviews, and now we're bringing them back! It's an in-depth conversation with VERA DREW, the director and star of THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, the independent, autobiographical, transgender satire of the Batman villain and mythos! Her film is a personal work of art told through superhero iconography, a rare and unusual cinematic experiment with a lot to talk about! William Bibbiani and Vera Drew talk about THE PEOPLE'S JOKER in the first installment of CA INTERVIEWS! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST FRANKENSTEIN MOVIES EVER! These are the films that are about and/or prominently feature the Devil, and not necessarily in the classical sense! Tons of movie recommendations and digressions ahead! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! We're almost done with the Millennium Era, but before the big blow-out finale, we have to check back in with our old buddy Mechagodzilla! How you doing there, pal? Do you wanna do one last epic fight with Godzilla, and would you mind if Mothra showed up to make it interesting? And to die, of course, because that's what Mothra does? It's GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S. on the latest THANK GODZILLA, IT'S FRIDAY! 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We came, we saw, we reviewed some movies! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and WItney Seibold review GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, the remake of ROADHOUSE, the nunsploitation horror movie IMMACULATE, the French animal mutation drama THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, the pigeon racing heist movie LITTLE WING, the based-on-a-true World War II story ONE LIFE, and the Lindsay Lohan rom-com IRISH WISH! Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire- 9:11 Roadhouse - 56:28 Immaculate - 1:11:50 The Animal Kingdom - 1:20:53 Little Wing - 1:28:51 One Life - 1:36:08 Irish Wish - 1:45:16 Review Round-Up - 1:54:50 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The director of GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS is back with GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA, a film that kinda remakes GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS! Can a stoic soldier and an eccentric scientist team up to stop Godzilla with a fantastic new superweapon? And can you believe how awesome the final fight is? 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/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We're back with a new WE'VE GOT MAIL, where we answer your correspondence, and talk about whatever you want us to talk about! This time, Bibbs and Witney explain the difference between scripts and screenplays, which version of a script gets judged by the Oscars, slow movies, plot holes, sequels that outclass the original, and 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! Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla is evil again, and this time he's haunted by ghosts! To defeat him it will take the combined strength of heroic good guy kaiju like Mothra, Baragon and [checks notes]... King Ghidorah?! Bibbs and Witney venture into one of the stranger corners of the Godzilla multiverse in GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK! 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! Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Oscars are finally over! We don't have to talk about them anymore! Except for this week, when we talk about them a little bit. Plus, new reviews of KUNG FU PANDA 4, the fourth film about a kung fu panda, the queer crime film LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the raunchy comedy RICKY STANICKY, and what the heck, let's throw AMERICAN DREAMER in there too! Oscars 2024 - 4:24 Kung Fu Panda 4 - 36:02 Love Lies Bleeding - 51:38 Ricky Stanicky - 57:35 American Dreamer - 1:06:21 Review Round-Up - 1:14:46 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! Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Hey, do you remember those bug monsters from RODAN? They're back, and they're bigger than ever! Can Godzilla fight a giant dragonfly, destroy all of Japan's power companies, reboot his continuity (again), and survive a weaponized black hole? We'll find out in GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS! 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! Join the SALTCATSOAP OF THE MONTH CLUB today! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy