Hey, DUNE: CHAPTER TWO is out! Does anybody out there like DUNE? Well, this week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED our critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing that DUNE, and also DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS because that came out too! Plus, Bibbs and Witney reveal their picks for what will win at the Oscars this year, and what should. DUNE: CHAPTER TWO - 5:28 DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS - 43:32 REVIEW ROUND-UP - 55:53 OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2024 - 58:05 Subscribe on Patreon...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Millennium Era begins with a film about a new version of Godzilla fighting Roland Emmerich's UFOs from INDEPENDENCE DAY and a monster that looks kinda like Roland Emmerich's GODZILLA!  Hmm... I wonder why they have such a beef with Roland Emmerich? We'll find out in GODZILLA 2000: MILLENNIUM! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get...

Bibbs and Witney don't make short podcasts, but this one is about short films! On the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review all 15 of the Oscar-nominated short films at the 96th annual Academy Awards, including the nominees for BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM, and BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive...

Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST DEVIL MOVIES EVER! These are the films that are about and/or prominently feature the Devil, and not necessarily in the classical sense! Tons of movie recommendations and digressions ahead! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! A group of selfish, sexist a-holes wash up on the shore of a mysterious island, where there's no food except giant mushrooms which, well... you'll see! It's MATANGO, aka ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE, and it's an unusually Lovecraftian monster movie that eventually ties into the GODZILLA mythos! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive...

Bibbs and Witney are back and reviewing a movie EVERYBODY LIKES, or possibly the opposite! We've got reviews of the superhero movie MADAME WEB, the music biopic BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE, the coming of age drama SUNCOAST, the horror comedy LISA FRANKENSTEIN, and the horror (?) movie SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET! Madame Web - 2:37 Bob Marley: One Love - 39:09 Suncoast - 51:50 Lisa Frankenstein - 58:56 Skeletons in the Closet - 1:12:51 Review Round-Up - 1:24:45 Subscribe on Patreon...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Decades before ARMAGEDDON and DEEP IMPACT, Ishirō Honda directed a sci-fi epic about a rogue planetoid on a collision course with Earth, and the scientists and astronauts who solve impossible problems to save the Earth! Except in GORATH, there's also a completely unrelated walrus monster! We're catching up with a film we accidentally missed in an all-new THANK GODZILLA, IT'S...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The REBIRTH OF MOTHRA trilogy concludes when King Ghidorah returns to kidnap hundreds of children, hypnotize one of the Elias into turning evil, and force Mothra to travel back in time! It's REBIRTH OF MOTHRA III, and by god, Mothra does actually get reborn again! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards,...

Bibbs and Witney answer YOUR emails about how to write film reviews, why so many movies cast romantic leads with distracting age gaps, and what it means we say a movie withstands, or fails, the "Test of Time!" It's an all-new WE'VE GOT MAIL! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence...

It's February! So why does it still kinda feel like January? This week, Bibbs and Witney review the $200 million spy comedy ARGYLLE, an animated movie written by Charlie Kaufman called ORION AND THE DARK, the coming of age drama HOW TO HAVE SEX, the coming-of-middle-age comedy SCRAMBLED, and the Shudder horror documentary DARIO ARGENTO: PANICO! It's an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, and it's AD-FREE because you're patrons! Argylle - 10:51 Orion and the Dark - 39:30 How to Have Sex -...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Hey... did you know Roland Emmerich made a Godzilla movie in America in the 1990s? It was a really expensive film with more commercial tie-ins than you can probably imagine, and even though it was a pretty big hit it was declared a pretty big flop that killed a potential franchise, and is now considered one of the worst blockbusters ever! The time has come for Bibbs and Witney...

Because our patrons demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS EVER! These are the films that introduced us to some of the best filmmakers in history. These are the films that knocked the world's socks off right away and/or set the stage for future greatness! It's a nearly three-hour episode of THE IRON LIST! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! A Pokemon with magic urine knows the secret to an underwater pyramid with a treasure that grants wishes and Mothra Leo also flies through a monster's colon in REBIRTH OF MOTHRA II! Buckle up, folks, because this may be our weirdest episode yet. Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive...

We recorded this episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL a couple weeks ago, just before Witney left town and Bibbs got super sick for a while, so it's a little out of date when we talk about what's going on with BARBIE and stuff, and we weren't sure when was a good time to post it. So we're doing it now! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...

Run! Run for your lives! It's JANUARY MOVIES! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new apocalyptic outer space thriller I.S.S., the cynical political slasher FOUNDERS DAY, the dystopian drama THE KITCHEN, and the apocalyptic drama THE END WE START FROM! And if that sounds like a kinda depressing crop of movies... yeah, like we said. "January movies." But the episode is AD-FREE because you're patrons! I.S.S. - 3:01 Founders Day - 26:40 The...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! GODZILLA DIED! And since the Americans are developing their own big budget Godzilla movie (we'll get to that soon), Toho doubled down on their second most popular kaiju in a kid-friendly film that's so 1990s that it 1990s the 1990s! But dang it, we want some of these toys! It's REBIRTH OF MOTHRA! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get...

Bibbs and Witney review the first new releases of 2024, and what the heck, let's throw in some movies from 2023 while we're at it! This week they're taking an in-depth look at the acclaimed dramedy THE HOLDOVERS, the haunted swimming pool movie NIGHT SWIM, the Shudder horror-comedy DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS, the Jason Statham thriller THE BEEKEEPER, Jeymes Samuel's biblical satire THE BOOK OF CLARENCE, Dan Levy's directorial debut GOOD GRIEF, and Steve McQueen's epic documentary OCCUPIED...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! GODZILLA DIES! It's the end of Godzilla's Heisei era and the big green guy is melting down, and when he goes critical he could take the world out with him! The only creature that can stop him is a giant crustacean mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer that killed the original monster! But who can stop that monster if it wins?! It's GODZILLA VS. DESTOROYAH! Subscribe on Patreon...

What were the best movies of 2023? WHAT WERE THEY?! Don't worry, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to solve the mystery! They're presenting the films that wowed them, that scared them, that challenged them, and made them bust a gut laughing in the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! A surprising amount of Godzilla's DNA has been shot into space lately, and it's evolved into SpaceGodzilla! So SpaceGodzilla comes to Earth and kidnaps Little Godzilla and actual Godzilla is like, "Oh, HELL no" and also there's like an Ahab guy and a giant mole robot and a plot to psychically control Godzilla and also the Yakuza gets involved! It's GODZILLA VS....

Happy New Year! We're celebrating by reviewing films from the old one! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold look back at the big holiday releases REBEL MOON: PART 1 - A CHILD OF FIRE, AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM, ALL OF US STRANGERS, FERRARI, THE IRON CLAW and THE COLOR PURPLE! Rebel Moon - Part 1: A Child of Fire - 7:07 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom - 43:36 All of Us Strangers - 1:02:08 Ferrari - 1:14:38 The Iron Claw - 1:28:28 The Color...

Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST MOVIES THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER "I"! It's the latest installment in our series about amazing movies connected only by one common element... the first letter in their title! Our Sponsors: * Check out Factor 75 and use my code criticallyacclaimed50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Humanity reverse engineers Mecha-King Ghidorah and creates Mechagodzilla, a mech piloted by human heroes called G-Force who are determined to save Japan from Godzilla! But wait, there's more! Rodan is back and his half-brother is Baby Godzilla, who's pretty nice once you get to know him, but those dang psychic children and their musical numbers unleash hell!  It's GODZILLA VS....

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Mothra is back, but this time Mothra has a moth god frenemy named Battra! And they're really going to ruin Indiana Jones's day in GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA! And Godzilla shows up sometimes, when he can be bothered. Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much...

Bibbs and Witney are reading YOUR correspondence and this week it's very Christmas-y! We've got a whole bunch of non-traditional Christmas movies we missed on our latest IRON LIST episode, a couple of presents from our too-generous listeners, and lots of other stuff too, like the best movies about Nashville! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more! Email us...