Compared to last year and the other years this decade, how much of the #Oscars is really still undecided before the big night? #Oscar2026 #Sinners #OneBattleAfterAnother #BestPicture #BestActor nextbestpicture.com/how-much-sus...

I wrote about the problematic history of the Oscars recognizing the work of Black directors. I’m really proud of this one, so please spread it far and wide. It’s an important convo that’s been sadly absent from the Oscars discourse this year.

"Anything which fails at its central or supposed premise to this extent cannot be deemed a success, although #TheBride cannot be written off as a total failure either." #TheBrideMovie review for @letterboxd.social #JessieBuckley #ChristianBale #MaggieGyllenhaal: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

BAFTA & #SAG/#theactorawards have gone wildly back & forth as the most accurate #Oscars acting precursor- so which one will get the #Oscars2026 tossups right? #BestActor #BestSupportingActress #MichaelBJordan #AmyMadigan #WunmiMosaku #TimothéeChalamet nextbestpicture.com/bafta-or-the...

When the #pgaawards & #SAG/#TheActorAwards split for Best Picture, like they did for #OneBattleAfterAnother & #Sinners this year, which guild winner usually has the edge - & how can this year be an exception? #Oscars #Oscars2026 #BestPicture: nextbestpicture.com/history-vs-m...

"No one has had any real ideas, or ideas that would have survived this climate, to make Scream 7 actually worth all this– & even Williamson couldn’t make any work either." #Scream7 review for @letterboxd.social #NeveCampbell #Ghostface #JusticeForMelissaBarrera: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

The PGA Awards will make history - either by making #Sinners their first Black led/made solo Best Picture, or by awarding what could be their biggest money losing BP ever in #OneBattleAfterAnother instead #SinnersMovie #Oscars2026: nextbestpicture.com/the-pga-awar...

From the Betsy Ross House to Gritty, the 800th episode of "The Simpsons" is full of local references. That's thanks to writer Christine Nangle, who grew up in the city.

"Infidelity to a classic story is not a sin on its own, as long as a fresh perspective can back it up – & the way that promise is squandered is Fennell’s real sin." #WutheringHeightsMovie review for @letterboxd.social #MargotRobbie #JacobElordi #EmeraldFennell: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

#SentimentalValue helped launch the #Oscars2026 season, & now its last chance to make a big impact - & perhaps the last chance for any suspense left this season- comes in the Supporting acting categories at #bafta #StellanSkarsgard #IngaIbsdotterLilleaas: nextbestpicture.com/will-stellan...

You might want to read this after watching tonight’s Philadelphia-centric Simpsons, but @nanglish.bsky.social did a brilliant job paying tribute to the whole city and not just the tourist hotspots (one particular location made my jaw drop a little). Go Birds!

Last year was the first #Oscar race in ages where Best Director was chaotic & not a blowout - yet Paul Thomas Anderson's #DGAAwards win brought Best Director [if not the #Oscars2026 BP race] back to business as usual #OneBattleAfterAnother #Sinners: nextbestpicture.com/how-paul-tho...

woohoo Eagles win the Super Bowl (last year!) what? I can be still happy. 🤭 Congrats to the Seahawks and their fans.

The first major #Sinners vs #OneBattleAfterAnother showdown of #Oscars2026 Phase 2 comes at the DGA - but even if whoever wins that wins the Best Director Oscar, will that settle Best Picture? #RyanCoogler #PaulThomasAnderson: nextbestpicture.com/coogler-vs-a...

"The way they talk about guns ... is different ... for different people ..."

God took the wrong person from "Home Alone 2." It's really that simple.

legitimately one of the best to ever do it

"Just a taste of vintage Raimi does go a long way - although the real help is in how all versions of McAdams go an even longer way." #SendHelp review for @letterboxd.social #RachelMcAdams #DylanOBrien #SamRaimi: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

freakin go birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SA...

The shockwaves that #Sinners record setting #Oscars nomination performance sent through the #Oscars2026 race and perhaps beyond: nextbestpicture.com/sinners-has-...

"The Secret Agent illuminates a long overdue to be illuminated past, builds a bridge to our present and urges us to keep its lessons alive for our future." #TheSecretAgent review for @letterboxd.social #WagnerMoura #Brazil: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

The biggest burning questions and potential controversies for #Oscars2026 nomination morning #Sinners #ItWasJustAnAccident #MartySupreme #SorryBaby #Bugonia #TrainDreams #OneBattleAfterAnother: nextbestpicture.com/oscar-nomina...

"The Bone Temple might not hit the heights of what came before, but still has many heights all its own - & offers many reasons to hope the best is still ahead." #28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple review for @letterboxd.social #RalphFiennes #JackOConnell #NiaDaCosta: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

The race for the final #Oscars2026 Best Picture slot may actually be settled by who gets - or who misses - the final Best Original Screenplay slot first #Weapons #BlueMoon #TheSecretAgent #ItWasJustAnAccident: nextbestpicture.com/why-this-yea...

Powerful. Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal threatening to arrest ICE if they fuck with her city. This is the energy we need right now. The police want to be the good guys for once? Protect us from ICE. (Video split into 2 parts due to 3 minute length restrictions)

This is what every film still in the #Oscars race needs to get from #SAG/ #TheActor, #PGA, #DGA and #BAFTA in these pivotal next 3 days #OneBattleAfterAnother #Sinners #Hamnet #MartySupreme #Wickedforgood #TheSecretAgent #TrainDreams #Bugonia #Frankenstein nextbestpicture.com/the-week-tha...

Happy new year. Or, as we say in Philly, happy fuckin' new year.

#OneBattleAfterAnother & #Sinners are winning everything before the #Oscars in a way no 2 films have done since #Moonlight & #LALALAND A barrier breaking Black led/made film upset a heavy/safer favorite then - do voters have the will to do that again? nextbestpicture.com/from-la-la-l...

"Marty Supreme is something just like Marty & possibly Chalamet - too much larger than life flash to not admire as a gawking viewer, yet might be too hollow where it counts to go beyond mere spectacle." #MartySupreme review for @letterboxd.social #TimothéeChalamet: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

#MartySupreme is already ahead of last year's #TimotheeChalamet #Christmas #Oscars season movie in a few ways - but can it and Chalamet have a different ending? #ACompleteUnknown #oscars2026: nextbestpicture.com/another-chri...

"Fire and Ash doesn’t leave a viewer soaring like a Pandoran bird, as much as it leaves them to ask 'Is that it?' – both with visuals & the story this time." #AvatarFireAndAsh review for @letterboxd.social #JamesCameron #ZoeSaldana #SamWorthington #StephenLang: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

Making or not making #Oscars shortlists may not mean much, especially with far more categories this year- but it might point to a few good or ominous things for certain films this year #WickedForGood #JayKelly #AvatarFireAndAsh #TheSecretAgent #Oscars2026: nextbestpicture.com/do-oscar-sho...

"The more one sits with it, the greater impact of what Panahi's done – & what such a story can & can't do – lodges in & like so much else, might never go away no matter what we do or don’t do to try." #ItWasJustAnAccident review for @letterboxd.social #JafarPanahi: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

"Like with Gustav’s film, when those meant to transform it break through the noise– & the true missing pieces emerge– thats when movie magic happens" #SentimentalValue review for @letterboxd.social #RenateReinsve #StellanSkarsgard #IngaIbsdotterLilleaas #ElleFanning: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

Not so much a 2nd review of #WakeUpDeadMan for @letterboxd.social , but a spoilery breakdown of how @rianjohnson.bsky.social views characters - even Blanc- through the 7 Deadly Sins...& perhaps shows the confessionals of #JoshOConnor's Jud through the 5 Stages of Grief letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

The last 3 #Oscars Best Picture slots could come down to 3 showdowns - 1 between NEON films, 1 between #Netflix films, & 1 between films coasting on their predecessors #NoOtherChoice #TheSecretAgent #Bugonia #WickedForGood #TrainDreams #JayKelly: nextbestpicture.com/how-six-2025...

"The tragedy is from being made incapable of seeing different ways to be, yet even a less humane world transformed by a less humane workforce can’t snuff everything worth nourishing." #NoOtherChoice review for @letterboxd.social #ParkChanWook #LeeByungHun: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

The films that made 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0 of the big season opening #GoldenGlobes, #CriticsChoice, #NBR & #AFI #Oscars quartet - & where they go from here: nextbestpicture.com/the-state-of...

#WickedForGood & #AvatarFireAndAsh have started on the same trajectory as last year's 2 preseason locks turned disappointing afterthought fall sequels from #Oscar winners Yet #oscars2026 precursors have done more for them so far - but will it be enough?: nextbestpicture.com/good-hits-fi...

"#Hamnet strikes the maximum devastating nerve for modern, paying & voting audiences – at least when it finally gets around to doing so." #Hamnet review for @letterboxd.social #JessieBuckley #PaulMescal #JacobiJupe #ChloeZhao: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

Critics/precursor season begins in full with the #Gothams, @nyfcc.bsky.social awards, NBR/AFI Top 10, @criticschoice.bsky.social & @goldenglobes.bsky.social noms - which will hopefully start answering these big #Oscars season questions: nextbestpicture.com/the-burning-...

"Wake Up Dead Man rewards its faithful once they have all the facts – & ideally meet them with more grace & understanding than judgement" #WakeUpDeadMan a #KnivesOut mystery review for @letterboxd.social @rianjohnson.bsky.social #DanielCraig #JoshOConnor #GlennClose: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

The mixed reviews for #WickedForGood mean if #ArianaGrande still wins at the #Oscars, she will need to do what only a handful of actors in this era have done - win in spite of their own movies nextbestpicture.com/are-ariana-g...

"It is too hard to shake off the ending and its last line - and sadly just as hard to shake off wishing the rest of the movie was worthy of it." #JayKelly review for @letterboxd.social #GeorgeClooney #AdamSandler #NoahBaumbach #BillyCrudup #LauraDern: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

"These sort of touches and lasting impressions do make Train Dreams something that isn’t just nice to look at, although that certainly goes a long way as well." #TrainDreams review for @letterboxd.social #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #KerryCondon: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

"The bar was set so high by #Wicked Act One and by Erivo, Grande, Chu & others, almost nothing in Part Two feels as thrillifying, as the Ozians might say." #WickedForGood review for @letterboxd.social #CynthiaErivo #ArianaGrande #Elphaba #Glinda #JonathanBailey: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...

#Frankenstein's Creature and the #Wicked witch were the most feared movie monsters of the 1930s, & are now the tragic antiheroes of fall 2025 - which could each lead to historic #oscars2026 acting nominations #JacobElordi #CynthiaErivo #Oscars: nextbestpicture.com/born-pure-ma...

"Maybe it makes too much sense – if sadly unintentional sense – that #TheRunningMan 2025 embodies false advertising in ways it never intended" #TheRunningMan review for @letterboxd.social #GlenPowell #ColmanDomingo #MichaelCera #JoshBrolin #EdgarWright: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...