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Amsterdam.” It’s a film from established auteur David O. Russell, whose reputation for delivering the goods allowed him to attract a murderer’s row of talent that includes Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Taylor Swift and Robert De Niro. And yet, the film, bolstering more stars than in the heavens, to quote an old line — and a budget that’s upwards of $80 million — is arriving in theaters having been pulverized by the critics who have published so far and hoping to rescue its investment by overcoming the reviews to be a commercial success.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is revealing its 2023 awards today, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. See the latest tally below.

Agnieszka Holland for the 2023 Career Achievement award. LAFCA’s awards honoring the year’s best achievements in filmmaking will be decided on Dec. 10.

in the words of Wrap reviewer Robert Abele, “swirls sci-fi, metaphysics, martial arts, slapstick, star power, and pop culture shout-outs into the type of experience that one can imagine the late exhibition gimmick impresario William Castle — he who notoriously wired theater seats so they buzzed — responding with, ‘Yeah, this doesn’t need my help.’”What it did not seem to be back then was any kind of awards movie, except maybe if the Film Independent Spirit Awards wanted to get crazy. The 94th Oscars hadn’t even taken place at that point – but if anybody had dared suggest that at the 95th Oscars in 366 days, “Everything Everywhere” would pick up a passel of awards, including Best Picture, they would have been dismissed as a visitor from one of the wildest corners of the multiverse through which Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn Wang travels.You think a world where people have hot dogs for fingers is weird? Well, how about one in which a movie with hot-dog fingers and dildo battles wins Best Picture? But it turns out that we might just be living in a universe where 9,579 film professionals in the Academy can come to the consensus that “Everything Everywhere” is the best movie of 2022.

Check your local listings to find it in a theater near you.It heads to Amazon Prime on March 7 in the UK.Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.As the title “Ruse de guerre” (ruse of war) suggests, there’s plenty of scheming.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced its winning films at a ceremony this morning in Santa Barbara.

The Wrap’s Robert Abele wrote, Garfield is queasily effective with Bakker’s boyishly manipulative use of his wife’s guilelessness and popularity as a vehicle for wealth, while ignoring the fissures that begin taking their toll on Tammy Faye. She turns toward the attentive glow of a handsome music producer (country singer Mark Wystrach), but the shame from that leads to a dependence on Ativan that, in a memorable scene — like many, re-enacted from the documentary’s archival treasure trove — that has Tammy Faye losing focus on the air.The televangelist biopic is currently playing in movie theaters.

66% and 72%, respectively. All three of those scores, however, still mean the movie is “Fresh” in Rotten Tomatoes speak.Metacritic ranks the MCU films a little bit differently.

The Wrap’s Robert Abele praises. “‘Eternals’ puts a welcome premium on what it might feel like to have a close-knit bond across many centuries, and then have that bond be threatened.”PA Media’s Damon Smith called “Eternals” “the most emotionally intimate Marvel story to date.”“Zhao’s script, co-written by Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo and Kaz Firpo, tests that bitter sentiment and the gossamer-thin moral threads separating heroes from villains to breaking point using one of the most diverse, inclusive teams in the sprawling MCU,” he continued.