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Critically Acclaimed #110 | The Best Movies of the 2010s! Jan 14, 2020

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This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold look back at an astoundingly great decade for film, and present their individual picks for the best movies of the 2010s! It's a giant episode full of great recommendations and controversial picks!

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Canceled Too Soon #176 | Father of the Pride (2004-2005) Jan 13, 2020

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Everyone knows Siegfried and Roy were the biggest stage show in Las Vegas, combining magic tricks and white lions and tigers! But what you didn't know was that all those trained animals lived in a gated community and had sitcom adventures, and were played by folks like John Goodman, Cheryl Hines, Danielle Harris, Orlando Jones and Carl Reiner in the Dreamworks Animated series... FATHER OF THE PRIDE!

And of course, Siegfried and Roy were there too, being absolute lovable goofballs. Was FATHER OF THE PRIDE... Canceled Too Soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold guide you through the history of this ambitious CG-animated primetime series and reveal whether all that magic made the transition to the small screen!

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The Iron List #3 | The Best January Movies Ever! Jan 10, 2020

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Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode! And this month, since it's December, they picked THE JANUARY MOVIES EVER!

Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they highlight some of the weird genre films that Hollywood had no faith in whatsoever, which surprised the heck out of us by actually being really, really good!

In other words... finally, an excuse to talk about MONSTER TRUCKS!

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We've Got Mail #12 | The Best Movies Over Three Hours Long! Jan 08, 2020

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It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters!

This week, Bibbs and Witney debate the right way to watch older, problematic movies in historical context without giving up your modern principles! They also select some of the best movies ever made that are over three hours long, figure out where you should start if you're just getting into Ingmar Bergman, and ponder the weird history of network TV stations making movies shorter and - sometimes - longer!

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Critically Acclaimed #109 | The Worst Movies of 2019! Jan 05, 2020

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This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold follow-up their list of THE BEST MOVIES OF 2019 with their list of THE WORST MOVIES OF 2019, full of films that deserve at least one last look from audiences, critics, studios and filmmakers, because we can all learn from their mistakes!

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We've Got Mail #11 | Is Batman Film Noir...? Jan 03, 2020

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It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters!

This week, Bibbs and Witney debate whether BATMAN, and especially BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM, is a film noir! They also talk about SHADOWHUNTERS for some reason, YA books that still need to be adapted, why some people "crowdpleaser" is a bad word, whether filmmakers have the right to dictate how you watch their work, and the folly of revenge!

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Critically Acclaimed #108 | The Best Movies of 2019! Dec 30, 2019

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It's been an unbelievably great year for movies, so picking the best of the best wasn't easy. But film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold did it anyway. On the latest CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED they present their lists of the BEST MOVIES OF 2019, and it's the only list you'll ever need! Maybe!

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The Two-Shot | Elves and Krampus! Dec 27, 2019

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It's a very special holiday presentation of THE TWO-SHOT, a podcast that's usually at the Schmoes Know Network!

You've never seen a Christmas horror movie as bizarre as ELVES, a film about a homicidal elf with a motive so weird you probably won't believe it even if you see it! It's one of the worst Christmas movies ever made, and it's the perfect double feature with the modern holiday horror classic KRAMPUS, about a family of jerks who run afoul of the spirit of the holiday's creepy counterpart!

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the notorious movies YOU tell them to every week on THE TWO-SHOT, and use those infamous turkeys to introduce you to some of the greatest motion pictures ever made by making wild double features!

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Critically Acclaimed #107 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Cats, 1917 and Little Women! Dec 22, 2019

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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER is such an enormous motion picture, for better or worse, that we have to save it for last!

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the baffling new big budget musical CATS, the ambitious new World War I thriller 1917, Greta Gerwig's superlative new adaptation of LITTLE WOMEN, and - in a spoiler-free review, followed by a review full of spoilers - the ninth official chapter in the STAR WARS saga!

Cats - 2:47 1917 - 32:31 Little Women - 50:24 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (No Spoilers) - 1:11:49 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Spoilers) - 1:42:23

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Canceled Too Soon #175 | Heil Honey I'm Home! (1990) Dec 21, 2019

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Just imagine you're watching TV in 1990, and suddenly, right in the middle of primetime, you find yourself watching a "wacky" sitcom about Adolf Hitler! It really happened, and the legend of HEIL HONEY I'M HOME!, which lasted only one episode, was born.

But was HEIL HONEY I'M HOME really the most offensive television series in history, or was it a scathing political satire in the vein of THE GREAT DICTATOR, THE PRODUCERS and JOJO RABBIT? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dive into one of the most notorious CANCELED TOO SOON series ever in this very special 175th episode!

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