Top 10 of 2023
Polite Society dir. Nida Manzoor
Rye Lane dir. Raine Allen-Miller
Showing Up dir. Kelly Reichardt
Blue Jean dir. Georgia Oakley
Reality dir. Tina Satter
How to Have Sex dir. Molly Manning
Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet
Past Lives dir. Celine Song
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell
Honourable Mentions:
Fair Play dir. Chloe Dumont, Priscilla dir. Sofia Coppola, The Pod Generation dir. Sophie Barthes, You Hurt My Feelings dir. Nicole Holofcener, Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman
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Reality
Reality [trailer]
Story that is based on transcribed interviews with whistleblower Reality Winner - the air force veteran who leaked information about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
With her naïveté and her simple, straightforward thinking it's at times difficult to watch how the FBI guys are taking her for a ride. But it's a very interesting approach for a film.
She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. A very harsh sentence for what she did.
Compare that with the highly preferential treatment that the Orange cult leader receives who constantly whines about "unfairness" after storing hundreds of classified documents in boxes in one of the garish bathrooms of his beach club.
Who knows, if Winner was constantly telling brazen lies, commit sexual assault, lie about about her real estate deals, maybe she too could've been the presidential candidate of the GOP. She also could've scammed enough money from her cult followers to pay her legal bills.
Side note, you can download the transcript of the audio recording here.
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It's time once again for the Lo-scars! My awards for the best films of 2023:
Best Director
Daniel Goldhaber – How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Dean Fleischer-Camp – Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Hirokazu Kore-eda – Broker
Paul King – Wonka
Tina Satter – Reality
Best Actress in a leading role
Rosy McEwan – Blue Jean
Lee Ji-eun – Broker
Olivia Colman – Empire Of Light
Sydney Sweeney – Reality
Thomasin McKenzie – Eileen
Best Actor in a leading role
Harris Dickenson – Scrapper
Nicholas Braun – Cat Person
Song Kang Ho – Broker
Best Actress in a supporting role
Bae Doona – Broker
Marin Ireland – Eileen
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Best Actor in a supporting role
Forest Goodluck – How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Josh Hamilton & Marchánt Davis – Reality
Simu Liu – Barbie
Best performance by a child or animal
Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Im Seung-soo – Broker
Lola Campbell – Scrapper
The Pigeon – Empire Of Light
Seeza Saroj Mehta – Jawan
Best Original Score
Chris Roe – Blue Jean
Disasterpiece – Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Gavin Brivik – How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Jung Jaeil – Broker
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Empire Of Light
Best Picture
Avatar: The Way Of Water
Broker
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Wonka
Worst Title:
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (just call it ‘quANTuMANia’!)
Eileen (because I get the Dexy’s Midnight Runners song in my head)
No One Will Save You (generic; nothing to do with the film)
Best Title:
Cat Person (because it works on two levels!)
Extraction 2 (for keeping it simple)
How To Blow Up A Pipeline (because I get a little thrill every time I google it)
Best running theme:
Cute little creatures who’ve lost their families – Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3; Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
FBI interrogations about security clearance – Oppenheimer; Reality
Getting a working vagina – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Barbie
Getting revenge on environmentally disastrous industries – How To Blow Up A Pipeline; Jawan
Home invasion – Accused; No One Will Save You
Korean adoption – Broker; Return To Seoul
Making a bomb – How To Blow Up A Pipeline; Oppenheimer
Moving to the coast with your mixed-race family – Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret; Avatar: The Way Of Water
Setting fire to rich people – The Menu; Nocebo
The Runtime of Shame:
Avatar: The Way Of Water (3hrs, 12mins)
The Golden Scissors Award for Shortest Runtime:
Fallen Leaves (1hr, 21mins)
…And The Best Movie Moment!
The final confrontation – Cat Person
“I’m a lesbian” – Blue Jean
No Sleep Til Brooklyn – Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3
Possession montage – Talk To Me
Zinda Banda – Jawan
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REALITY, and Leak That Changed America
Director: Tina Satter
Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
The real story of Reality Winner is one crystallized in amber; the casualty of a bizarro time American political history.
Can you recall the meltdown surrounding Russian interference in a certain election circa 2016-2017? What about the wide breathe of reactionary content birthed in the wake of investigation? If…
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