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Our ”Can’t Win” Awards 2023!

It's our awards show time again as we give you our picks for the "Can't Win" awards. Our picks to help highlight performances and films that just have no chance of winning "real" awards.
A very interesting selection of movies this year, although I couldn't quite follow my own guidelines and ended up giving a few nods to the same movie, which doesn't spread as much love as I want from this whole idea.
Tune in and find out where we think the underappreciation was felt most strongly last year.

The Worst Movies of 2022 Plus Ant-Man Quick Look

Some technical difficulties pushed us back with this episode, but the wait is over for the Worst Movies of 2022, which I know everyone was looking forward to.
It was an easy year for picking bad movies, but we also give some insights on other worst lists, which confuse us greatly.
We also give our quick take on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which didn't win us over.

The Best Movies of 2022 Lists

It's finally time and despite our best efforts there are still a couple of films that made our lists that we didn't have time to cover throughout the year.
Find out what blew us away and let me tell you, there are some surprises.
As usual, we will also call out those movies that are on everyone else's lists that just aren't actually worthy.

A Man Called Otto, Living, The Whale & Empire of Light

It's our last show to squeeze in everything we can before we hit you with our Best of the Year lists and things get a little dodgy in the rush.
This week we look at Tom Hanks remaking A Man Called Ove in a film that truly Americanizes most of the best notes out of things, and Bill Nighy remaking Kurosawa's Ikiru in a film that is nearly perfect (spoiler warning for next week's list).
We also go back to The Whale and Empire of Light as we try to make sure we mention everything getting awards season attention before revealing our picks for the year.

Triangle of Sadness and Tar Reviews

We continue this week trying to knock out everything we can before the Oscars. We're notoriously bad at that, but we manage a good look at Triangle of Sadness and Tar. Two films that couldn't be less for everybody, but are worth checking out.
Next week we are going to have perhaps our strangest episode ever as we tackle A Man Called Otto, Living, and at least five other films in one show.

Critics’ Choice Awards Round-Up & Commentary Plus Violent Night Review

This week we take a break from trying to get through every movie of the year before awards, because some awards happened. We'll run through the Critics' Choice Awards winners and discuss the highlights, great wins, and the things we think are a little silly.
We're also going back to Violent Night, to further give a break from awards season, in case anyone missed this whacktastic delight over the holidays.

Glass Onion & The Pale Blue Eye Review

This week we're catching up with Glass Onion as we try to cover everything as fast as we can with awards looming (and passing). We'll also look at The Pale Blue Eye, a Christian Bale vehicle which bizarrely is going almost completely unnoticed.

Glass Onion & The Pale Blue Eye Reviews

As awards close in (and pass by) we're trying to get to as many films as we can, but in all honesty... we're bad at that. This week we had to go back to Glass Onion, because in all the rush we passed by that one in past weeks. The main struggle with this one seems to be between those who think it is better than the original and those that find it not quite as good. Either way, high praise. We'll let you know where we fall on that strange spectrum.
We're also covering The Pale Blue Eye, the Christian Bale vehicle that has gone almost completely unnoticed. The battle of Netflix titles is on and whatever rating they ultimately get, we're going to recommend watching both of them.

Avatar Review & Critics’ Choice Awards Noms

The big thing this week is obviously Avatar: The Way of Water and listeners may know that we don't both have the same feelings about Cameron, or Avatar. Is this one worth the mountains of box office cash? Is it worth anything? We'll let you know.
We will also give you a bit of a rundown of the nominations for the Critics' Choice Awards and while I won't exactly give away my voting, it probably isn't to hard to tell where I'm leaning.

Bones and All, The Wonder, Pinocchio & More

As awards season starts truly rocking, with CriticsChoice noms and a lot of critic group and other awards coming out, we're looking this week at some of the (sorry) smaller things out there.
Although, Pinocchio is hitting things pretty hard on the animated front.
Both Bones and All and The Wonder seemed like they were going to get a lot more attention a few months ago, but as the year winds down, they just aren't what people are taking about... but should they be?
Tune in and we'll let you know where this ones ought to be sitting in the list of the year's films.