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William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Legendary Monsterverse begins with Gareth Edwards' GODZILLA , a film that took Godzilla so seriously that he barely shows up in it. But at least it's got Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche... for a few minutes... Subscribe on Patreon at  www.patreon.com/criticallyaccl...

Monsters! Nuns! Monkeys! Clowns! Put them all together and you get,,, monunkeyowns! But also, you get the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! This week, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE , THE FIRST OMEN , MONKEY MAN and THE PEOPLE'S JOKER! Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - 3:10 The First Omen - 26:08 Monkey Man - 41:55 The People's Joker - 57:3...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The Millennium Era comes to an epic end with GODZILLA: FINAL WARS , an X-Men movies crossed with The Matrix that gets bored of nu metal human fights after an hour and decides to become a Godzilla movie! Godzilla fights most of his greatest nemeses and even a few of his friends, in...

Bibbs and Witney used to do hour-long filmmaker interviews, and now we're bringing them back! It's an in-depth conversation with VERA DREW , the director and star of THE PEOPLE'S JOKER , the independent, autobiographical, transgender satire of the Batman villain and mythos! Her film is a personal work of art told through superhero iconography, a rare and unusual cinematic experiment wi...

Because  YOU  demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for  THE BEST FRANKENSTEIN 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 excitin...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! We're almost done with the Millennium Era, but before the big blow-out finale, we have to check back in with our old buddy Mechagodzilla! How you doing there, pal? Do you wanna do one last epic fight with Godzilla, and would you mind if Mothra showed up to make it interestin...

We came, we saw, we reviewed some movies! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , William Bibbiani and WItney Seibold review GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE , the remake of ROADHOUSE , the nunsploitation horror movie IMMACULATE , the French animal mutation drama THE ANIMAL KINGDOM , the pigeon racing heist movie LITTLE WING , the based-on-a-true World War II story ONE LIFE , and the Lindsay Lohan rom-com...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! The director of GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS is back with GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA , a film that kinda remakes GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRUS ! Can a stoic soldier and an eccentric scientist team up to stop Godzilla with a fantastic new superweapon? And can you believe how awesome the...

We're back with a new WE'VE GOT MAIL , where we answer your correspondence, and talk about whatever you want us to talk about! This time, Bibbs and Witney explain the difference between scripts and screenplays, which version of a script gets judged by the Oscars, slow movies, plot holes, sequels that outclass the original, and more! Subscribe on Patreon at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclai...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla is evil again, and this time he's haunted by ghosts! To defeat him it will take the combined strength of heroic good guy kaiju like Mothra, Baragon and [checks notes]... King Ghidorah?! Bibbs and Witney venture into one of the stranger corners of the Godzilla multiver...

The Oscars are finally over! We don't have to talk about them anymore! Except for this week, when we talk about them a little bit. Plus, new reviews of KUNG FU PANDA 4 , the fourth film about a kung fu panda, the queer crime film LOVE LIES BLEEDING , the raunchy comedy RICKY STANICKY , and what the heck, let's throw AMERICAN DREAMER in there too! Oscars 2024 - 4:24 Kung Fu Panda 4 - 36:02...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Hey, do you remember those bug monsters from RODAN ? They're back, and they're bigger than ever! Can Godzilla fight a giant dragonfly, destroy all of Japan's power companies, reboot his continuity (again), and survive a weaponized black hole? We'll find out in GODZ...

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...

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...

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.pat...

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 reward...

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 eventual...

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 - 58:5...

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...

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...

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, co...

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 , a...

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...

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...

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.pat...