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Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (#GWNYFCA) is a group of film critics/journalists based in and around WNY with an affinity for cinematic art.

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Greater WNY Film Critics Association @gwnyfilmcritics.com · Jan 10
And there you have it. Our 2025 Film Awards Winners!

For a full list of our 2025 Film Awards Nominees and Winners, please visit our website here: gwnyfilmcritics.com/portfolio/aw...

Thanks for following along! Bring on 2026!

#GWNYFCA2025
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Encore SINNERS screening at @drydentheatre.bsky.social tomorrow!
Sinners (DCP) Friday, January 23, 7:30 p.m. GWNYFCA Awards Encore Screening! The Dryden is giving you a chance TOMORROW EVENING to revisit Ryan Coogler's record breaking smash hit of 2025! SINNERS has been nominated for a record 16 Academy Award nominations! And that's not all! Recently, SINNERS was the recipient of three awards given out by the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association-Best Score, Best Supporting Actress (Wunmi Mosaku), and Best Original Screenplay.
January 23, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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Coming up next for #JanuaryGiallo: FELIDAE (New Restoration 2024) 🐈‍⬛

📅 Friday, Jan. 23 | 7:30pm @thelittletheatre.bsky.social

🎟️ Info + tix: thelittle.org/felidae/

Presented w/ partners @cinematicvoid.bsky.social + @amcinematheque.bsky.social.

#RochesterNY #ROC #AnomalyFilmFest #horror
Poster for Felidae. A cartoon tuxedo cat with a red tipped tail walks in front of a setting yellow sun. Text: Akif Pirinçci's Felidae. Francis, der berühmte Katzendetektiv, löst den aufregendsten Vier-Pfoten-Fall seines Lebens. World of Animation and January Giallo at the Little Theatre. Friday, Jan. 23. Details at TheLittle.org.
January 20, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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The annual Anomaly retreat! A full day of planning and plotting and making any occult deals necessary to bring you all the best genre movie goodness we can this year.

Look at us go! 👁️🥔🎬

#AnomalyFilmFest #FilmFestival #RochesterNY #ROC
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January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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The @gwnyfilmcritics.com 2025 Film Awards Winners were announced this afternoon at the @drydentheatre.bsky.social in Rochester, NY.

Congratulations to all nominees & the cinema world at-large for another great year of work.

The winners [THREAD]:

#GWNYFCA2025
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January 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Tomorrow, 1/10 at 2:00pm! Free event!

Come to @drydentheatre.bsky.social to watch our critics announce our #GWNYFCA2025 Award Winners live!

Details: www.eastman.org/event/film-s...
Branded slide for The Best Films of 2025 event for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association. A grid of orange squares at a 45-degress angle serves as background and field markers for text, logo, and motifs.
January 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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The @gwnyfilmcritics.com 2025 Film Awards Ballot is set!

And the nominees are ...

[THREAD]

#GWNYFCA2025
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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SAVE THE DATE: The nominees for our 2025 GWNYFCA Awards will be announced next Wednesday, December 24th starting around 10am.

#GWNYFCA2025 #filmsky #awardsseason #fyc
December 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Watched JAY KELLY. Glad to see Adam Sandler still picks projects that will send him to cool places so they can double as a family vacation.

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A ★★★ review of Jay Kelly (2025)
"Pieces of time." In the immortal words of Charles Dickens: "Jay Kelly was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Ron Sukenick's daughter, whose swollen feet finally went bac...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Man, fuck you people, "Train Dreams" is great.
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Listen to my review of the recently released independent comedy “Tapawingo” starring Jon Heder.
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Movie Review: 'Tapawingo'
Listen now | Audio Review For All Subscribers
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December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Tarantino apparently abhors subtitles so vehemently that he won't even include his own INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on this list.
robpilk.com Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · Dec 3
like if you told me this list was “all-time best selling discs at walmart locations” i’d be like hmm yeah makes sense
tarantino's "top 10 best movies of the 21st century" list
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I wonder what he would have thought of the original actor who was fired because PTA found him to actually be too “weak sauce” to go toe to toe with DDL.

Was it ever confirmed who? Rumor at the time was an actor in Brian De Palma’s REDACTED.
theplaylist.bsky.social The Playlist @theplaylist.bsky.social · Dec 3
ICYMI: Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano. Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Letterboxd is an incredible social media platform if you want to slowly, over time, become less and less respectful of your friends' subjective tastes.
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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The next 20 selections in the #AFMI100 are out today.

I love THE INSULT.

Shocked TO A LAND UNKNOWN made the list considering the voting date cutoff. Might have climbed even higher than 46(!!) as more people got to watch it this year.

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The Greatest Arab Films of All Time
In 2025, the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) asked hundreds of professional critics, academics, curators, and select filmmakers from over 20 countries to vote for the Greatest Arab Films of All T...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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thefilmstage.com The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · Dec 2
The U.S. trailer for Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s directorial debut #AUsefulGhost has arrived.

Watch ahead of a January 16 release for the Cannes winner and Thailand's Oscar entry: thefilmstage.com/a-useful-gho...
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Movie Review: 'Knives Out 3: Wake Up Dead Man'
Ignore The Shouting Man And Believe What You See And Hear
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December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I love how many Gothams winners/presenters are giving the Gothams shit for abandoning their indie standards. bsky.app/profile/vult...
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Dec 2
After a shout-out to Francine Maisler, Delroy Lindo goes off-script by acknowledging that the Gothams were originally created to honor independent films, but he says that Coogler "is an independent filmmaker at heart."
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Narrowing down the year’s best film performances to just 17 was pure torture, but I did it! bsky.app/profile/vult...
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Dec 1
The year was so competitive that Stellan Skarsgård, Emma Stone, and Paul Mescal didn’t make the cut. Here are our favorite film performances of 2025.
The Best Film Performances of 2025
The year was so competitive that Stellan Skarsgård, Emma Stone, and Paul Mescal didn’t make the cut. Here are our favorite film performances of 2025.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This Week At Media Room
Neil Young, Panda Heads, An Impossible Crime, And More Band Names
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November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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With the full understanding that Stoppard’s most profound work was in his plays, I’d love to do a mini-marathon of his work in adapting novels into screenplays for movies of varying quality.
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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People got mad when I wrote about “Hamnet” setting up as the Oscar season villain because I guess they thought I was saying it deserved to be. I wasn’t, but seeing the tone of the negative reviews (amid a lot of positive reviews), I’m confident in saying I was right. www.vulture.com/article/osca...
The Year’s First Oscars Villain Has Arrived
Hamnet is emotional, feminine, directed by an Oscar winner. But it’s also not Sinners or One Battle After Another.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Using Alexandre Desplat’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” score for a google Gemini ad is such obvious rage bait that I feel like a sucker being this mad about it but also fuck these people.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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From the press kit of HARD TARGET:

Directed by John Woo, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen, and Wilford Brimley.

#filmsky
B&W Publicity Photo for HARD TARGET: JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME stars as Chance, a down-and-out merchant sailor who uses his martial arts skills to battle a sadistic band of hunters who prey on homeless veterans in New Orleans' French Quarter. Photo by Randee St. Nicholas. Copyright ©1993 Universal City Studios Inc. All rights reserved. B&W Publicity Photo for HARD TARGET: Chance (JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME) single-handedly takes on a band of sadistic hunters in a deadly safari game. Photo by Melissa Moseley. Copyright ©1993 Universal City Studios Inc. All rights reserved. B&W Publicity Photo for HARD TARGET: Acclaimed Hong Kong director JOHN WOO makes his American film debut with JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME in "HARD TARGET". Photos by Melissa Moseley. Copyright ©1993 Universal City Studios Inc. All rights reserved. Color Publicity Slide for HARD TARGET: Chance's (JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME) quest begins when he rescues Natasha Binder (YANCY BUTLER), a young woman whose father was a recent victim of the killers. Photo by Melissa Moseley. Copyright ©1993 Universal City Studios Inc. All rights reserved.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Angela Lansbury's six highest-grossing movie roles:
Mayor McGerkle Mrs. Potts Balloon Lady Mrs. Van Gundy Dowager empress M... Aunt Adelaide
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Festival merch now available!

ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!

IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)

🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
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December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM