Civil War brews up a modest first place finish this weekend
For all of the controversy that Alex Garland’s Civil War brewed before opening, its first weekend was only a modest success. Despite strong ...
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire continues to dominate the box office in its second weekend
I wouldn’t call this weekend bad, per se, but it seems as if Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire kept interest away from ...
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire squashes the competition at this weekend’s box office
Everyone loves a good monster team-up. At least, that’s what this weekend’s box office tells me. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which took ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: Anatomy of a Fall
It’s been something of a trip to go into these Best Picture nominees with next to no information. The only thing I knew ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: Barbie
For whatever reason last year, Barbie was the only one of the Oscar nominees I saw in theaters. While 2023 had a couple ...
Oscar Watch 2023: Maestro
Biopics are generally pretty bad, right? As a society, we’ve essentially deemed that biographical films on an artist or person’s life tend to ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: American Fiction
Despite its recent nomination for Best Picture, I haven’t heard a peep about American Fiction online. I knew next to nothing about it ...
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire freezes out the competition at the box office this weekend
It really should be no surprise, but Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has managed to ice the competition and capture a first-place finish at the ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: Past Lives
Over the past year or two, Flixist hasn’t been as prolific as it once was. We were never a massive site rolling in ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: Poor Things
While I wouldn’t say that any of us at Flixist are big Yorgos Lanthimos fans, we’re all familiar with the films he has ...
Kung Fu Panda 4 barely squeaks out first place at the box office this weekend
Despite a couple of new releases this weekend, both Kung Fu Panda 4 and Dune: Part Two have remained at the top of ...
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One Percenter is an in-depth musing on the nature of action stars
Disclaimer: On the very day I put the finishing touches on this draft, a rather informative thread from Japanese film critic Tom Mes ...