Critically Acclaimed Network

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney are joined by author M. Lopes da Silva, whose new novel HOOKER is a retrowave, feminist, pro-queer, pro-sex work slasher/vigilante thriller about a sex worker in 1980s Los Angeles who uses hooks as weapons to fight a misogynistic ser...

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point! This week on EPISODE ZERO they venture back to ancient Greece, or at least Italy in the 1950s, for an epic double feature of HERCULES (1958) and HERCULES UNCHAINED (1959). These two superhero blockbusters put brawny men...

Movie reviews? CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has 'em! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Steve McQueens RED, WHITE AND BLUE, Chloe Zhao's NOMADLAND, the trippy Aubrey Plaza indie BLACK BEAR, Disney's fantasy comedy GODMOTHERED, and the bizarre discovery 12 PUPS OF CHRISTMAS! Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney solve the biz...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney talk about what films and shows would have worked on QUIBI, the rules for the ALL OUR YESTERDAYS drinking game, the best movies about coming home, the ongoing issue with fat-shaming in movies and television, the parodies and referenc...

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has more movie reviews than you can shake a movie review at! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Ron Howard's new biopic HILLBILLY ELEGY, Clea DuVall's genre-defying queer rom-com HAPPIEST SEASON, Steve McQueen's partygoing LOVERS ROCK, Alex Winter's new documentary ZAPPA, and the landmark Hallmark Christmas movie THE CHRISTMAS HO...

Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode! This month it's THE BEST MOVIE REMAKES, with monster movies, musicals and mind-blowing international films galore! Subscribe on Patreon  at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and m...

We've reviewed a lot of failed TV shows in the past, but we've never reviewed a whole network before!  This week, join us for a very special super-sized episode of CANCELED TOO SOON, featuring Witney Seibold and special guest host B Peterson, entirely dedicated to the failed streaming service QUIBI, a unique platform designed to be watched while people were out socializing... which debuted...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney talk about what's wrong with so many coming of age movies, exploring the history and relevance of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, give Bibbs a chance to review some shows on Quibi, and reveal which movie tropes about Americans are...

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has returned from the grave and we've brought a bunch of new movie reviews with us! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new animated fantasy WOLFWALKERS, Steve McQueen's Amazon film SMALL AXE: MANGROVE, the Hitchcockian Hulu thriller RUN, the hard-hitting documentary COLLECTIVE and the World War II drama THE LAST VERMEER! Also this we...

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point! This week on EPISODE ZERO they travel to the 1956 sci-fi classic FORBIDDEN PLANET, which blazed new trails in sound design, special effects, out of this world storytelling and repressed sexuality! Subscribe on Patreon  ...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney find out why snow sucks, recommend how to introduce movies to your kids (and pick out their first movie ever), explain why the credits are important, ponder the big questions about their fandom of STAR TREK and reveal which older mov...

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has a chalice from the palace full of movie reviews! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases MANK, FREAKY, AMMONITE, THE CLIMB, THE LIFE AHEAD and JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY! Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney venture way out west to watch WILD WILD WEST, the massive blockbuster flop f...

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point! This week on EPISODE ZERO they gear up for Kenneth Anger's experimental queer short film SCORPIO RISING, about a group of masculine bikers who defy popular convention. Bibbs and Witney explore the way that SCORPIO R...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney learn more about FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, talk about the movie props they want to add to their collections, consider the links between extended universes and fandoms, discuss the difference between "good taste" and "wrong tas...

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has a giant cornucopia of movie reviews! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases PROXIMA, LET HIM GO and ATTACK OF THE DEMONS, and the Netflix Christmas comedies OPERATION OF CHRISTMAS DROP and HOLIDATE! Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney look back at the highest grossing movie of 1971, the ic...

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are working backwards through film history, and in Season 2, they're using THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW as the starting point! This week on EPISODE ZERO they explore the way ROCKY HORROR took its influences from the horror, sci-fi and queer films that preceded it, starting with Jame Whale's brilliant yet often-overlooked THE OLD DARK HOUSE!...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are inviting fascinating people to watch MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, a film about fascinating people having a conversation, and have their own conversation about it! This week's guests are Sebastian and Jennifer from TENTPOLE TRAUMA , the podcast where they do post-mortems on would-be blockbusters that weren't!  Subscribe to TENTPOLE TRAUMA on ApplePodcasts!!...

Before he was world-renowned for children's books like MATILDA, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and THE WITCHES, Roald Dahl was world-renowned for being really, really creepy. That's why CBS gave him a horrifying television series called 'WAY OUT in 1961! With a cast of future stars and an impressive team of eerie writers - including future IT'S ALIVE and THE STUFF writer/directo...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney ponder what America really means on Election Day, and also get more into generational divides, what makes a great movie franchise, which serial killers would be least likely to kill them, and which classic movies feel eerily prescien...

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has more movies than you can shake a shaky thing at! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases THE CRAFT: LEGACY, COME PLAY, LOVE AND MONSTERS, THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF WOLF BOY and BIG RAD WOLF! Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney meet Michael Caine's iconic 1966 character ALFIE, a lothario wh...

Before AMERICAN HORROR STORY, there was another TV series that played like one giant horror movie stretched out over the course of a self-contained season! It was called HARPER'S ISLAND, it was considered too weird to succeed, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore this forgotten but possibly amazing horror series in our penultimate installment of S...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney talk what they'll miss about the soon-to-be-dead streaming service Quibi, biopics they'd make if they could, magical body swapping movies, adaptations that capture the spirit of the original books, movie franchises they had t...

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has your movie reviews, piping hot! This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new releases TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIE FILM, REBECCA and ON THE ROCKS! Also this week on THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STREAMING CLUB, Bibbs and Witney get ready for Neil Marshall's DOOMSDAY, which may be a cult classic in the making... and also may...

Every month on THE IRON LIST, the Patrons of the Critically Acclaimed Network get to pick a topic for a giant-sized episode! This month it's THE BEST GHOST MOVIES, with terrifying haunted house flicks, tragic supernatural romances and even some kids movies!  Subscribe on Patreon  at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, comm...

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney talk about great movies with troubled productions, generational divides in popular culture, the importance (or lack thereof) of genre studies, whether or not STAR TREK: VOYAGER was actually a bad show, and the artistic value of fan f...