I didn’t get the design for the EMP/MoPOP at first. Then I saw an overhead view & the smashed guitar inspiration & it’s brilliant. The reflections of the Center off the metal, tell their own stories. RIP Frank Gehry.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

That's a wrap on our 2025 nominations, winners will be announced on Monday December 15th. Until then, read more about SFCS and the nominated films on our website. seattlefilmcritics.com/2025/12/05/s...

How many of SFCS's nominated films have you seen? Which are in your top four? Catch up ahead of our announcement of winners using this Letterboxd list of all nominees.

Not gonna lie, a couple of these made me frown. But overall? LOVE this lineup. A solid set of ten that’s not just the same old-same old award season status quo. It’s a lovely group of nominees.

The 2025 SFCS nominees for BEST DIRECTOR: 📽️ Chloé Zhao - HAMNET 📽️ Josh Safdie - MARTY SUPREME 📽️ Paul Thomas Anderson - ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 📽️ Ryan Coogler - SINNERS 📽️ Clint Bentley - TRAIN DREAMS

So glad we gave Jordan and Edgerton their flowers. Towering performances I hope do not get lost in the awards-season shuffle.

Some real surprises here, yes, but so happy for Eva Victor. A truly astonishing performance that shook me to my core.

David Jonsson!!!!!!!!!!!! This is extraordinary. If you haven’t seen the movie, you’re missing out on a brilliant performance. He’s simply incredible.

This selection of nominees RULES (although, is Grande supporting or lead in WICKED? 🤔). So tough to choose. But those Inga, Wunmi, and Amy nominations? Floored. Just floored. Love their inclusion here so very, very much.

Maybe my favorite category.

EEPHUS!!!!!! One of the best nominees of the day. So thrilled by this film’s inclusion here. FYI @musicboxfilms.com 🥰

It’s a phenomenal group, but I can’t get over how thrilled I am to see THE UGLY STEPSISTER here. Yay!

The 2025 SFCS nominees for BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: 📽️ THE ALABAMA SOLUTION 📽️ COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT 📽️ PAVEMENTS 📽️ THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR 📽️ WTO/99

The 2025 SFCS nominees for BEST ANIMATED FILM: 📽️ ARCO 📽️ THE COLORS WITHIN 📽️ KPOP DEMON HUNTERS 📽️ LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN 📽️ ZOOTOPIA 2

All of these are great, but seeing SORRY, BABY here truly made my heart soar. Love this inclusion so very, very much.

The 2025 SFCS nominees for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 📽️ FRANKENSTEIN 📽️ HAMNET 📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 📽️ SINNERS 📽️ TRAIN DREAMS

Another lovely surprise with the DEAD DIAMOND inclusion. Very cool.

Love that out of nowhere RESURRECTION inclusion. So cool!

The 2025 SFCS nominees for BEST COSTUME DESIGN: 📽️ FRANKENSTEIN 📽️ THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME 📽️ SINNERS 📽️ TRAIN DREAMS 📽️ WICKED: FOR GOOD

Tough category. So many worthy choices. These are all solid nominees. Is it weird I prefer Zimmer’s ELLA MCCAY score to his one for F1, though? 🤷‍♀️

Another solid lineup, but I do wish we’d have ventured outside the box a little here (and to other counties). Oh well. Still a worthy group of nominees. Zero complaints.

The 2025 SFCS nominees for BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: 📽️ AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH 📽️ F1® THE MOVIE 📽️ FRANKENSTEIN 📽️ PREDATOR: BADLANDS 📽️ SINNERS

Bummed there’s no Jai Courtney here for DANGEROUS ANIMALS. Still hard to argue this isn’t a strong cadre of baddies. Heck, three of them were on my nomination ballot so I truly cannot complain.

Love that we’ve added this category this year. So great.

It’s a strong group this year. Watch them all.

And away we go…

I guess I’m just in the bag for these. Love the animatronic, and I’m partial also partial to non-pandering, kid-friendly gateway horror fare. It’s the ‘80s kid that still lurks within me. 🤷‍♀️😂 #FiveNightsAtFreddys2 moviefreak.com/five-nights-...

Hey! If you’ve ever liked my voice, now, before the end of the year, would be a really good time to hire me for any SAG-approved projects! Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance

Not sure why, but I really do love this @letterboxd.social feature. Just makes me smile. A cool snapshot of all the crazy things I watch during a given year. Also, wow I've had a lot of rewatches in 2025. Kinda crazy.

Think I’m too much in the bag for James L. Brooks to say bad things about ELLA MCCAY. His latest is undeniably slight (and as equally harmless), but it offers individual treasures so reminiscent of his past classics that I can’t help but smile. Inconsequential, yes, but I still enjoyed myself. 🤷‍♀️

If nothing else, for better AND for worse, FIRE AND ASH is probably the most James Cameron has ever James Cameroned in any of his films. A massive mixed bag (which is an understatement), but facets of it are still flat-out extraordinary.

This is tonight!! I’ll be signing books, giving insights, and trying to hype Hal Ashby!

Hi everyone! Happy December! I thought it would be fun to put together a 25 Days of Christmas Horror streaming guide giving you one movie a day. Available to both paid & free subscribers: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/25-days-of-o... Shares/subs are greatly appreciated - cheers! 🎄

This piece is fantastic (as is everything Kat writes) but I don't know how to make the studios and the PR groups that represent them understand that their reliance on Twitter and unspoken "requirement" for entertainment journos & critics to use X makes "being harassed" part of our job description.

I’d do a full “fave first time watch” post for November, but as it would mostly be made up of this year’s releases as I get ready for end-of-year critic polls, that feels rather pointless. Instead, these were four of the new-to-me archival discoveries that brought me some joy:

Two days before I have to vote in my first critics poll of 2025. I’m running out of time, but at least things are getting interesting.

As I was traveling for the holiday, finally found time to read SUNRISE ON THE REAPING. It broke me a little. Might be my fave entry in Suzanne Collins’ series (all of which I love). However, how will this not be the most depressing/heartbreaking major studio tentpole ever? This story is all pain.

Just survived arguably the worst Spokane to Seattle flight I’ve had in 25 years. Up. Down. Up. Down. BumpBumpBumpBumpBump. Up. Down. So much fun. I mean, I LOVE rollercoasters, but that was something else. My stomach hates me. 🤢😂 Anyhow…home sweet home. 🥰

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

My upcoming appearance at the @thefridacinema.org got covered in the @latimes.com! You can still buy tickets to Monday’s screening!

Took the nieces to the theater today for a little Gizmo fun. They had a blast. Then introduced the parents to Soderbergh’s marital spy vs spy riff. They also had a blast. Woo-hoo! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The more I keep thinking about it, the more I can’t stop chuckling over #Zootopia2. It’s just so much goofy fun (and far smarter than you’d initially expect). moviefreak.com/zootopia-2-2...

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) is on TCM today at 5:15pm ET if you’d like to jumpstart the Dick Van Dyke centenary. It’s part of a day of classic family films, incl. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (1961) + Dr. Seuss' anti-fascism musical fantasy THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953). #FilmSky #TCMParty

If you're seeing #Zootopia2 this weekend, consider supporting the family of Babatunde “Tunde” Akinloye, the film's prod. story supervisor, who tragically passed away just 10 days ago. www.gofundme.com/f/community-...

Yes! Buy this book! It’s terrific. Interviewed both @cadenmgardner.bsky.social and @willowcatelyn.bsky.social for the Seattle Gay News back in June of 2024. Check it out if you are so inclined. But, buy there book. I’ll say it again, it’s terrific. You won’t regret it. www.sgn.org/story/75900/...

The more I keep thinking about it, the more I can’t stop chuckling over #Zootopia2. It’s just so much goofy fun (and far smarter than you’d initially expect). moviefreak.com/zootopia-2-2...

1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans. Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension. Subscribe to support our journalism.