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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WE'VE GOT MAIL a couple weeks ago, just before Witney left town and Bibbs got super sick for a while, so it's a little out of date when we talk about what's going on with BARBIE and stuff, and we weren't sure when was a good time to post it.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 p...

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 mov...

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!...

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...

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...

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 excl...

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...

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...

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! 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...

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/criticallyacclaimedn...

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 exclus...

It's a big week for movies about delicious food AND upsetting themes! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the Roald Dahl prequel WONKA , the harrowing World War II drama THE ZONE OF INTEREST , the whimsical Aardman Animation sequel CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET , the ambitious dramedy AMERICAN FICTION , and the delectable period piece THE TASTE OF T...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! What do you get if you combine Godzilla and time travel? You get GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH , and absolutely wild kaiju classic about a mission to prevent Godzilla from becoming an irradiated monster, which somehow leads to Godzilla fighting a cyborg King Ghidorah! And that's...

WE'VE GOT MAIL is back! William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are catching up on their emails and answering YOUR questions about A.I. art, box office accounting, why Ensign Ro is one of the most influential STAR TREK characters, classic movies that actually live up to their enormous hype, and more! Subscribe on Patreon at  www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork  to get exclusive podcasts and...

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore the Hayao Miyazaki's new animated film THE BOY AND THE HERON , Yorgos Lanthimos's Frankenstein feminism dramedy POOR THINGS , Ava DuVernay's ambitious treatise on class and racism ORIGIN , the unexpected new animated superhero movie MERRY LITTLE BATMAN , and the motion picture sensation that&#3...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, there's Godzilla fights a giant rosebush that's spliced with his DNA and haunted by the ghost of a mad scientist's daughter! It's GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE and it's... folks, it's really a lot. Subscribe on Patreon at  www.patreon.com/criticallyac...

Bibbs got his computer back from the shop, just in time for the first weekend in December, which is always one of the slowest weekends of the year! But! This year we've got a pretty eclectic group of films, including the much ballyhooed GODZILLA MINUS ONE , the Eddie Murphy Christmas comedy CANDY CANE LANE , John Woo's silent action thriller SILENT NIGHT , and the new thriller starring Tho...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, there's only one thing Godzilla loves more than smashing stuff, and it's a delicious Dr. Pepper! Godzilla returns once again in GODZILLA 1985 , the American version of GODZILLA RETURNS with more comic relief, more product placement, and more Raymond Burr! Subscr...

We're back from Thanksgiving break and Bibbs's computer is broken again but we're making it work somehow! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold exhume Disney's WISH , go historical on Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON , get a little... um... salty-burned on Emerald Fennell's SALTBURN , conduct an investigation into Bradley Cooper's MAESTRO , take...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! Godzilla took most of a decade off and almost fought the devil, but instead he's back in a reboot that ignores every movie in the series except the original! That's right, David Gordon Green didn't invent that! Godzilla returns in THE RETURN OF GODZILLA! Subscribe on...

Because YOU demanded it, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER! It's a cavalcade of Christmas-themed movies that either defy Christmas movie conventions, or are languishing in obscurity while more famous films dominate all the "other" top ten lists! Find out what Bibbs and Witney picked on this brand-new episode of TH...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every GODZILLA movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! And we do mean every movie, because this week we're playing catch-up with another Ishiro Honda-directed monster movie, which would cross over into the GODZILLA franchise in a single panel of a single comic book as a throwaway Easter Egg!  It's the killer yeti movie HALF HU...

William Bibbiani is back and we're reviewing some gosh-darned MOVIES, dang it! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED , Bibbs and Witney Seibold review the new MCU movie THE MARVELS , the David Fincher thriller THE KILLER , the Nicolas Cage fantasy drama DREAM SCENARIO , the Sofia Coppola biopic PRISCILLA , the holiday slasher IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE , the Netflix biopic NYAD , and the queer hol...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are reviewing every  GODZILLA  movie ever made, and they're doing it on Fridays! This week, a mad scientist rebuilds Mechagodzilla and puts his secret cyborg daughter in charge of controlling both the giant robot and the new kaiju Titanosaurus! TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA isn't just Ishiro Honda's final Godzilla movie, it's the last movie he ever dir...