Now entering their seventh year, The Lubies are CITY’s rambunctious Oscar alternative, bestowing the highly sought after Golden Everything Burrito upon the films, performances, and trends that made the biggest impression over this past year.
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Film review: ‘Clemency’
Alfre Woodard gives a phenomenal performance as a prison warden grappling with the emotional and psychological toll of carrying out death row executions in Chinonye Chukwu’s sobering and provocative drama.
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Good things, small packages
Opening this week are the Oscar Nominated Shorts Programs, the popular annual showcase of the animated, live-action, and documentary short films nominated for an Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards.
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Whatchagonna do?
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back at it in “Bad Boys for Life.” The “Bad Boys” films had something of a fascistic streak, with a celebration of police brutality, militarization, and misanthropic cruelty played for laughs.
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92nd Academy Awards nominations
The Academy Awards nominations are out. Adam analyzes the nods: this year only narrowly escaped being another #OscarsSoWhite situation, and women filmmakers were entirely snubbed for the directorial award.
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Hidden depths
Based on true events, Terrence Malick’s sweeping period drama “A Hidden Life” tells the story of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector during World War II who refused to swear loyalty to Hitler or fight for the Nazis.
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Film review: ‘Little Women’
Greta Gerwig’s film distinguishes itself from countless iterations of the novel with a work that delivers a supremely faithful adaptation while also offering a fresh, creative perspective on the material.
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Along for the ride
World War I epic “1917” is an astonishing feat of filmmaking: exciting, impeccably crafted, gorgeously shot, and well-performed by its cast. But in many ways it feels like the prestige picture equivalent of a thrill ride experience.
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Risky business
As you might expect, “Uncut Gems” is not an easy watch. It’s a film that operates entirely at a level of clammy panic and desperation, forcing its audience to witness a person make all the wrong decisions and being powerless to stop it.
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The 15 best films of 2019
It was as good a year for film as it was bad for, well, (gestures broadly to the world) everything else. These are the movies that most spoke to Adam this year, each conveying something unexpected about what it feels like to be alive right now.
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Bombed out
‘Bombshell’ works hard to completely absolve its characters of their own complicity in the creation of the toxic product churned out by Fox.
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New Guillermo del Toro joint ‘Nightmare Alley’ to be filmed in Buffalo
The film will star Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, and Willem Dafoe. A casting call for extras has been issued in Western/Central New York.
