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AMG wrote:

Holy Spider First Reactions Amy Smith: Within the first five minutes of HOLY SPIDER, my mouth was on the floor. By the end I was shaking and nearly in tears. Ali Abbasi has truly made something special and I hope people pay attention and watch what he has to say. Monica Delgado: Holy Spider is an example of how a filmmaker who made a couple of interesting genre films ends up overwhelmed by the demands and formulas demanded by the festival market. Ali Abbasi made a thriller that wallows in the abject. Applause for suffocated women in the foreground. Rafa Sales Ross: A crushing disappointment if you came in looking for the blood-pumping, batshit weirdness of BORDER, Ali Abbasi’s crime thriller HOLY SPIDER blends Fincher and Farhadi in an anticlimactic moral exercise that never banks on the thrilling promise of its first act. Lisa Ludwig: Completely empty and dead after Holy Spider I don’t know when was the last time a film gave me such a tight feeling in my chest. Clapping feels wrong, but it’s right, because the film deserves it, even if it is terrible in what it shows. Anaïs Bordages: about a series of femicides in Iran and the man who commits them, is chilling. It’s going to take me a few hours to decide if this is a good thing or not, but my immediate reaction is that I didn’t want to see this. Gregory Ellwood: Ali Abassi is a a very talented director. More impressed by early thriller elements in Holy Spider than trial stuff in last third Adam Solomons: grim, grim, grim. Effective, if formulaic. Solid performances all-round. Iranian cinema has a different convention for violence against women, maybe. Jack Schenker: Wow, came into this expecting a slow drama….i am now incredibly shook. This is a very fucked up film…one tht grabs you by the throat and never lets go. The first half was stronger than the second but man…what a brutal and excellent film FilmLand Empire: visually stunning, chilling and atmospheric investigation thriller about a real life serial killer in Iran that grows in depth with its politically charged third act. Oh and the score is haunting. Angry and masterful Rafael Motamayor: HOLY SPIDER is fucking bleak, and reminded me a lot of SE7EN in its first half which is an incredible exercise in tension. The 3rd act is too formulaic in its procedural aspect but the movie still rules. Also, at times I thought this was a better Joker than Joker? Idk Jason Gorber: part procedural, part political polemic, Ali Abbasi brings Persian precision and Danish sense of mood to this dark, disturbing period of Iranian history. Like BORDER that engaged genre tropes while twisting them this film feels like a long pent-up scream.

Oh, excited to see this now honestly. Sounds like something that could win the Palme

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AMG wrote:

The average rating based on the same 11 international publications across all competition films. Ranking is out of 4. The all time record is 3.8 and was set by Burning. The publications/critics are: Justin Chang (LA Times, US) Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian, UK) Anton Dolin (Meduza, Malta) Robbie Collin/Tim Robey (The Telegraph, UK) Wang Muyan (The Paper, China) Katja Nicodemus (Die Zeit, Germany) Michel Clement (Positif, France) Mathieu Macheret (Le Monde, France) Stephanie Zacharek (Time, US) Natalia Serebriakova (Karydor, Ukraine) Screen International

Thank you

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AMG wrote:

Updated Screen Jury ratings Armageddon Time = 2.8 Eo = 2.7 Triangle of Sadness = 2.5 Boy From Heaven = 2.3 Tchaikovsky’s Wife = 2.2 The Eight Mountains = 2.1 Brother & Sister = 2.1

What are these again? And what is the scale?

I remember Titane having 1.6 last year and then it went on to win the palme lol

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probablyROB wrote:

I’ve been saying I think Chastain wins but not necessarily because I think it’s the best performances; I genuinely don’t believe there’s been a standout performance this year like there was last year in Limited. 

Yes there is and it’s Jessica Chastain. Just not enough people are seeing it unlike smth like Mare. The show is certainly not for everyone but it is one thing: a giant acting showcase. That being said neither her or Oscar are safe for a nom sadly, they should win with ease but I don’t think it will happen. I’ll settle for Qualley though, I really loved Maid.

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Onion wrote:

It’d be really tragic for Elisabeth Moss if Candy gets acclaimed enough to get Jessica Biel nominated while Moss dropped the show for Shining Girls which apparently is getting panned. 💀

It got one (1) bad review out of the only 5 that are on RT so far. The premature exaggeration is real

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Dodged a bullet with gal gadot. No thanks.

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Lil Tony wrote:

If it was good, the ratings would be higher. I trust audiences more than critics 80% of the time because critics just want to be bored while audiences want to be entertained and be able to connect with characters. Nobody saw who Leda really was or what her intentions were. We didn’t even get to understand what happened to her family. There was no missing daughter? Really? That’s just silly

This might be the dumbest thing I have read in the past 3 months or so.

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Holy shit I got 11th place in the predictions. I’ve never done nearly as well as this and I’m shocked lol

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No Scenes from a Marriage. Hate it here. Jessica and Oscar should be sweeping. Praying they‘ll get SAG nominations. With how underseen the show is it seems unlikely though unfortunately. + they‘re busy promoting movies.

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kat_ebbs wrote:

This field actually is too boring and milquetoast. Something or someone will come and mix it up. Re: The Boys, I think it gets Starr in or it falls out entirely.

Better Call Saul, Ozark, Killing Eve and This Is Us all end after this season. There will be plenty of new stuff next season when they need to fill all these holes. Also most of the predicted shows are great so imagine complaining about this lineup…

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wolfali wrote:

I think they’re referring to her not winning at the Emmys.

Yeah I noticed as I pressed send. Well whatever Emmys fads wbk DGA >> etc. lol

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Labyrinth wrote:

Her never winning for Homeland is a travesty

She won in 2020 for the series finale lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_Directors_Guild_of_America_Awards

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FreemanGriffin wrote:

My current predictions: Jude Hill, Belfast Ciaran Hinds, Belfast Jared Leto, House of Gucci Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog A few who might make it in to the final ballot: David Alvarez, West Side Story Richard Jenkins, The Humans Personally don’t see it happening: Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza Corey Hawkins, The Tragedy of Macbeth Really don’t understand why these last two are so high in the predictions. Could be proven wrong but I usually get 18-19 of the acting nominations correct – but I don’t lock them in until the end of December.

Jude Hill was literally officially placed in Lead yesterday/today. So Dornan (and Balfe) will probably be Supporting (saw him in your lead predictions). Also maybe if you wanna predict Yeun this category seems more likely. I don’t think the Humans will place anyone in Lead after hearing people who have seen it’s reviews.

Also we get it you already hate Licorice Pizza. We. Get. It.

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Greg and Tom romance storyline incoming, sorry Shiv.

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Invincible: This was a lot more brutal than I was prepared for lol I knew it would be but not to this extent. Very engaging story and I was thoroughly entertained throughout.

A Very English Scandal: Really enjoyed the 2 lead performances (yes 2 lead) especially Whishaw’s he’s such a babe. The show was really fast-paced and didn’t waste any time to get to the meat of it all, which I really liked especially since it’s only 3 episodes. Can’t wait for the next installment.

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