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Robyn
Mar 103 min read
Final Oscar Predictions 2024
Best Picture Will win: Oppenheimer Might upset: Nothing. Should have been nominated: The Iron Claw My personal pick: The Holdovers Best...
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Robyn
Feb 5, 20222 min read
2022 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
There were a lot of things I was grateful for in 2021: vaccines, more traveling opportunities, and a spate of new movies that weren't...
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Robyn
Apr 24, 20213 min read
Final Oscar Predictions 2021
And thus concludes what feels like the longest Oscar season in all of history. Phew. Last spring, there were questions of whether there...
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Robyn
Mar 13, 20213 min read
2021 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
What a year. Last February, when I screamed and jumped off my couch following Parasite's dark horse Best Picture win, I could not have...
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Robyn
Dec 30, 20206 min read
Top 10 Films of 2020
Top 10 TV Films Released in 2020 10. The Wolf House I have never seen animation as transfixing (or, frankly, exhausting) as the...
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Robyn
Dec 29, 20206 min read
Top 10 TV Series of 2020
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2020 10. Visible: Out on Television Apple TV+'s first great original program, five-part docuseries Visible:...
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Robyn
Feb 9, 20202 min read
Final Oscar Predictions 2020
I’ve written a lot about the Oscars in the past 12 months: I implored voters to recognize feminist musical dramas, I highlighted how...
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Robyn
Jan 12, 20202 min read
2020 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
Oscar nomination day is one of my favorite days of the year. When I lived in LA, I used to get up at 5 am to prepare for the early...
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Robyn
Dec 28, 20196 min read
Top 10 TV Series of 2019
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2019 10. Harley Quinn Harley Quinn is the story of what happens when a woman’s ego happens to be as inflated...
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Robyn
Dec 23, 20196 min read
Top 10 Films of 2019
Top 10 Films Released in 2019 10. Good Boys There's something to be said for laughing your ass off in the movie theater. My number 10...
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Robyn
Feb 23, 20192 min read
Final Oscar Predictions 2019
This was a busy year for me and the Academy Awards! First, I started prognosticating for Movie City News’ Gurus o’ Gold series and then...
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Robyn
Jan 21, 20192 min read
2019 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
Tomorrow morning is my version of Christmas. I get up early, bubbling over with anticipation, and wait nervously for the inevitable joy...
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Robyn
Dec 30, 20186 min read
Top 10 TV Series of 2018
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2018 10. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat A friend recently described chef Samin Nosrat to me as "The New Anthony...
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Robyn
Dec 30, 20185 min read
Top 10 Films of 2018
Top 10 films Released in 2018 10. The Tale There’s a moment in Jennifer Fox’s The Tale that is so real and so startling, I’ll never be...
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Robyn
Mar 3, 20183 min read
Final Oscar Predictions 2018
2017: The year I was never so happy to be so wrong. When Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty announced La La Land Best Picture, no one in the...
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Robyn
Jan 22, 20182 min read
2018 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
Tomorrow is my version of Christmas. I get up early in the morning, giddy with excitement, and I wait for catharsis after a year’s worth...
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Robyn
Jan 4, 20185 min read
Top 10 TV Series of 2017
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2017 10. I Love Dick Jill Soloway’s brilliant micro-series about art, desire, and aging simply scorches:...
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Robyn
Jan 2, 20184 min read
Top 10 Films of 2017
Top 10 films Released in 2017 10. Battle of the Sexes Can we just pretend Emma Stone won her Oscar for this one instead of Blah-Blah...
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Robyn
Mar 15, 20174 min read
“Toni Erdmann” and the Burdens of Womanhood
You were lied to. Toni Erdmann is not a comedy. Sure, German director Maren Ade’s Oscar-nominated ode to fatherhood (and daughterhood) is...
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Robyn
Feb 25, 20173 min read
Final Oscar Predictions 2017
I’ll be honest – 2016 was not my favorite year for film. While movies like American Honey, The Edge of Seventeen, Moonlight, and...
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