Canceled Too Soon

Every year on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold make a point to review all 15 of the Oscar-nominated short films, and this year - since even the Academy Awards think they're disposable - it's more important than ever! So buckle up, because it's a deep dive into this year's Oscar nominees for BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT, BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM and BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM!  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and

Welcome to CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, Bibbs and Witney get roped into Pedro Almodovar's TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!, a film that stars Antonio Banderas as a man trying to get the woman he kidnapped to fall in love with him. Is it a hilarious horror film? Is it a terrifying romantic comedy? Why not both! Want to vote for future episodes of CRITICALLY RECLAIMED? All you gotta do is subscribe on Patreon! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes d

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 MURDER MYSTERY MOVIES, a 2-hour podcast dedicated to William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold's favorite films about solving a deadly crime! From classic detective movies to wacky comedies and beyond, get ready for a deluge of dastardly whodunnits, courtesy of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and 

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold have a little catching up to do, and review the new TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, the Hulu thriller NO EXIT, the Channing Tatum drama DOG, the werewolf thriller THE CURSED, the Foo Fighters horror comedy STUDIO 666, the witch drama HELLBENDER, the Zoom drama FAMILY SQUARES, and the religious drama A BANQUET! Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2:43  No Exit - 30:13  Dog - 43:13  The Cursed - 53:06  Studio 666 - 1:00:24  Hellbender - 1:10:44  Family Squares - 1:18:25  A Banquet - 1:26:56  Review Round-Up - 1:34:18   Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da

Bibbs and Witney explain where they've been all week and read emails from listeners who want to talk about how Pon farr works in STAR TREK, why OKLAHOMA! wasn't the game-changing musical it gets credit for, the pros and cons and unexpectedly complexities of selling out, and how long we'd set the Enterprise's self-destruct timer for! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for

Because you demanded it, CANCELED TOO SOON is back! This is the podcast where William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review TV shows that lasted only one season or less, and we're kicking off a new wave of episodes with a forgotten EPIX series starring Ben Kingsley, Jacki Weaver, Jimmi Simpson, Luis Guzman, and Terry O'Quinn, which plays like a Coen Brothers crime story that just won't stop getting out of control. Did PERPETUAL GRACE, LTD. deserve to get overlooked, or was it... CANCELED TOO SOON?! Bibbs and Witney find out in a brand-new episode of the podcast that started it all! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. L

Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who want to talk about why cult movies probably wouldn't be better with bigger budgets, why the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, great movies about quarter-life crises, how to interview famous people and why film criticism has some similarities with preaching! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.ne

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Kenneth Branagh's all-star murder mystery DEATH ON THE NILE, the award-winning international drama COMPARTMENT NUMBER 6, the Jennifer Lopez/Owen Wilson rom-com MARRY ME, Steven Soderbergh's techno-thriller KIMI, and Josephine Decker's YA drama THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE! Plus, Bibbs and Witney look over this year's ACADEMY AWARD nominations and say goodbye to the late, great Ivan Reitman. Ivan Reitman - 1:21  Oscar Nominations - 16:36  Death on the Nile - 40:00  Compartment Number 6 - 56:53  Marry Me - 1:04:47  KIMI -  1:16:25  The Sky is Everywhere - 1:27:52  Review Round-Up - 1:35:30  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspond

Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who want to talk about what's wrong with using CGI to resurrect dead actors and de-age older actors, bad movies saved by great moments, when a viewer's personal expertise ruins a film, and whether Bibbs and Witney think about character vs. story! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more! Support the sh

Welcome to CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, Bibbs and Witney get box seats for Richard Attenborough's A CHORUS LINE, an Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical, starring Michael Douglas! Does it deserve its reputation as a subpar rendition of the hit show, or has time been kind? Want to vote for future episodes of CRITICALLY RECLAIMED? All you gotta do is subscribe on Patreon! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silv

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Roland Emmerich's absurd disaster thriller MOONFALL, Joachim Trier's masterful THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, the new punk documentary POLY STYRNE: I AM A CLICHE, and the horror movies ALONE WITH YOU and SLAPFACE! Moonfall - 0:59  The Worst Person in the World - 28:32  Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché - 44:16  Alone With You - 56:48  Slapface - 1:07:22  Review Round-Up - 1:17:47 Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Faceboo

Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who want to talk about the importance of celebrating incomplete art, their latest charities, why the words "overrated" and "underrated" are a problem in film criticism, the preponderance of bad photoshop in films, and the revelation that CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED has fans on all seven continents! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net fo

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the lost 1984 ninja vigilante thriller NEW YORK NINJA, Asghar Farhadi's latest drama A HERO, the Kevin James sports dramedy HOME TEAM, the stop-motion animated anthology THE HOUSE, the animated kids film THE ICE AGE ADVENTURES OF BUCK WILD, the Danish drama A TASTE OF HUNGER, and the HBO Max teen drama THE FALLOUT! New York Ninja - 3:46  A Hero - 24:16  Home Team - 36:57  The House - 47:50  The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild - 59:31  A Taste of Hunger - 1:16:23  The Fallout - 1:23:00  Review Round-Up - 1:31:30.  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure t

Welcome to CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, Bibbs and Witney explore a public domain film noir that's often taken for granted, but there's a reason why D.O.A. (1950) is considered a classic! Its legacy touches everything from CRANK to OLDBOY! Want to vote for future episodes of CRITICALLY RECLAIMED? All you gotta do is subscribe on Patreon!Support the show: https://www.patreon.com//criticallyacclaimednetworkAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who want to talk about the minutiae of stardates in the STAR TREK franchise, the unexpected precursors to TITANE, the greatness of THE LIFE OF BRIAN, and the best characters with little or no dialogue! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com//criticallyacclaimednetwo

Welcome to CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold catch up on older movies one or both of them have never seen before, as chosen by YOU, our listeners! This week on CRITICALLY RECLAIMED, Bibbs and Witney introduce you to an invisible 6 foot tall rabbit named HARVEY! Is he real? Is he imaginary? Is he an elaborate metaphor for Jesus Christ? Let's find out!  Want to vote for future episodes of CRITICALLY RECLAIMED? All you gotta do is subscribe on Patreon!Support the show: https://www.patreon.com//criticallyacclaimednetworkAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who sent us drinky birds and beautiful watercolors, presented their favorite movie insults, take us to task for all the great movies based on TV shows that we forgot, and want to know all about the Criterion collection! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com//critic

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 MOVIES BASED ON TV SHOWS, an over 2 1/2-hour podcast dedicated to William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold's favorite films that adapt, follow or provide valuable backstory to TV series! Comedies based on classic sitcoms, action movies based on beloved adventure shows, and also some weird ones in there just to keep you on your toes! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Clu

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the blockbuster slasher "requel" SCREAM, the animated family comedy sequel HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 4: TRANSFORMANIA, and the latest anime from acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda, BELLE! Scream - 3:50  Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania - 43:12  Belle - 1:03:46  Review Round-Up - 1:23:43   Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to

Bibbs and Witney read emails from listeners who ask about what the future film film criticism will look like, outdated cultural references, movies they used to champion (and have since turned on), their favorite workplace comedies and more! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com//criticallyacclaimednetworkAdv