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Critically Acclaimed Network
Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold host a series of ongoing shows, featuring CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED (new movie reviews), THANK GODZILLA IT'S FRIDAY, CANCELED TOO SOON, WE'VE GOT MAIL, THE IRON LIST, and more!
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- Critically Acclaimed Network
Critically Acclaimed #352 | Bibbs and Witney's Best Movies of 2025!
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold were going to present their picks for THE BEST MOVIES OF 2025, THE WORST MOVIES OF 2025 and THE AVERAGEST MOVIE OF 2025…
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Critically Acclaimed #351 | Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Housemaid, Ella McCay, The Spongebob Movie: Search for SquarePants, Goodbye June, Silent Night Deadly Night, Scarlet, Influencers, Not Without Hope
This week, Bibbs and Witney review the epic sci-fi threequel AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney's darkly comic thriller THE HOUSE MAID…
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We've Got Mail #188 | Soup Movies?!?!
Bibbs and Witney answer YOUR emails in this all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, and talk about all-night movie marathons, cozy movies we forgot, surprising…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #72 | The Best "This Had Oscar Buzz" Movies Ever!
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for the best THIS HAD OSCAR BUZZ movies ever! These aren't just movies that had Oscar…
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Critically Acclaimed #350 | The Secret Agent, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Merrily We Roll Along, The Chronology of Water, Oh. What. Fun., Fackham Hall, 100 Nights of Hero, Rosemead
Bibbs and Witney review the new Brazilian political thriller THE SECRET AGENT, the horror video game movie sequel FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, the filmed version…
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Critically Acclaimed #349 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Hamnet, Zootopia 2, Jingle Bell Heist
Bibbs and Witney review Rian Johnson's latest all-star whodunnit WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, Chloé Zhao's historical weepy HAMNET, Disney's…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #71 | The Coziest Movies Ever Made!
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney are back with their picks for THE COZIEST MOVIES EVER MADE! But what, pray tell, makes a movie…
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Critically Acclaimed #348 | Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Sisu: Road to Revenge, Champagne Problems
Bibbs and Witney review WICKED: FOR GOOD, the Brendan Fraser drama RENTAL FAMILY, the Eurospy throwback REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, the action sequel SISU…
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Critically Acclaimed #347 | The Running Man, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Nouvelle Vague, Arco, Lesbian Space Princess, Keeper, The Carpenter's Son, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, A Merry Little Ex-Mas
Bibbs and Witney review a great big pile o' new releases, including Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation THE RUNNING MAN, the magic heist threequel NOW YOU…
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Critically Acclaimed #346 | Predator: Badlands, Sentimental Value, Bugonia, Nuremberg, Die My Love, Ballad of a Small Player, In Your Dreams, Christy
Bibbs and Witney review the new sci-fi sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS, the new international ensemble drama SENTIMENTAL VALUE, Yorgos Lanthimos' kidnapping thriller…
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We've Got Mail #187 | OMG, Heathcliff Knows Who We Are!
Bibbs and Witney are back and answering YOUR letters and emails about Siskel and Ebert, UCLA Film School, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, ONE BATTLE AFTER…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe All-Nighter | Halloween 2025 Movie Marathons!
Bibbs and Witney love movie marathons, and they've each programmed an awesome all-nighter for Halloween 2025! Welcome to THE ALL-NIGHTER, a new thing we're…
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Critically Acclaimed #345 | Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Black Phone 2, Shelby Oaks, A House of Dynamite, The Twits, Chainsaw Man - THe Movie: Reze Arc, Hedda, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Queens of the Dead
Bibbs and Witney review Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN, Scott Derrickson’s supernatural sequel BLACK PHONE 2, film critic Chris…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThis Ain't No Game #2 | Star Trek: The Golden Trivia Game (1985)
The podcast where Bibbs and Witney track down and play retro movie and television tabletop games on the air is back! We got a lot of positive feedback about…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #70 | The Best Vampire Movies Ever!
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for THE BEST VAMPIRE MOVIES! Like, EVER! Friends, there are SO MANY vampire movies, it's…
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Critically Acclaimed #344 | Tron: Ares, Deathstalker, Good Boy, The Smashing Machine, Play Dirty, After the Hunt, Anemone, Orwell: 2+2=5, Vicious, 100 Meters
Bibbs and Witney review Disney's latest attempt to make TRON happen, TRON: ARES! Plus, the sword-and-sorcery reboot DEATHSTALKER, the dog-in-a-haunted-house…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThis Ain't No Game #1 | Trivial Pursuit: Silver Screen Edition (1983)
The idea for THIS AIN'T NO GAME (named after the classic SUPER MARIO BROS: THE MOVIE tagline) is simple: We track down and play retro table top games, but only…
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Critically Acclaimed #343 | One Battle After Another, Him, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Listers: A Glimpse into Extreme Birdwatching, The Lost Bus, Dead of Winter, The Strangers: Chapter 2
Bibbs and Witney review Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, the football horror movie HIM, the Colin Farrell/Margot Robbie fantasy romance A BIG…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron Liszt #69 | The Best Film Scores Ever!
Because YOU demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for THE BEST MOVIE SCORES EVER! Classics! Cult favorites! Oddball entries you'd never have…
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We've Got Mail #186 | Is Sinners a Horror Movie? (Yes!)
Bibbs and Witney are back and answering YOUR emails, about how to defend SINNERS against accusations that it's not a horror movie, the moral obligations of…
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Alonso Duralde, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas! | The Critically Acclaimed Interview
Our beloved fellow film critic Alonso Duralde is here to talk HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS, the newly revised version of his classic ode to Christmas…
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Critically Acclaimed #342 | The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Long Walk, Spinal Tap II, The History of Sound, Twinless, The History of Sound
Bibbs and Witney review the blockbuster horror sequel THE CONJURING: LAST RITES, the Stephen King adaptation THE LONG WALK, the comedy legacy sequel SPINAL TAP…
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We've Got Mail #185 | The Trans Characters Who Mean the World to Us
We're talking about what EDDINGTON really has to say about the COVID lockdown, why F1: THE MOVIE is different from Akira Kurosawa's SANJURO, the many fictional…
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Critically Acclaimed #341 | The Toxic Avenger, Caught Stealing, The Roses, The Thursday Murder Club
Bibbs and Witney review the Troma remake THE TOXIC AVENGER, Darren Aronofsky's crime comedy CAUGHT STEALING, Jay Roach's dark comedy THE ROSES, and the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #68 | The Best Horror Movies of 1990!
Because our patrons demanded it, Witney Seibold got to pick the topic for this month's episode of THE IRON LIST! Join him - and yes, even William Bibbiani -…
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Critically Acclaimed #340 | Relay, Honey Don't!, Eenie Meanie, Devo, The Map That Leads to You
Bibbs and Witney review the David Mackenzie's new paranoid thriller RELAY, Ethan Coen's queer crime comedy HONEY DON'T!, the Hulu Original car chase caper…
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We've Got Mail #184 | Whither Goest the Great Disney Villains?
If there's one thing we love here at CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, it's you! Our listeners! And this podcast is yours to control! Bibbs and Witney answer YOUR emails…
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Critically Acclaimed #339 | Highest 2 Lowest, Nobody 2, Red Sonja, Fixed, East of Wall
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review Spike Lee's Akira Kurosawa remake HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, the action-comedy sequel NOBODY 2, the sword and sandal reboot…
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Critically Acclaimed #338 | Weapons, Freakier Friday, Souleymane's Story, Sketch, It's Never Over Jeff Buckley
Bibbs and Witney review the freaky new horror blockbuster WEAPONS, the weaponized-nostalgia that is FREAKIER FRIDAY, the French drama SOULEYMANE'S STORY, the…
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Critically Acclaimed #337 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Naked Gun, The Bad Guys 2, The Home, Together, She Rides Shotgun, My Oxford Year, War of the Worlds
Bibbs and Witney review Marvel's latest blockbuster THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, the spoof revival THE NAKED GUN, the animated sequel THE BAD GUYS 2, the…
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The Iron List #67 | The Best Westerns Ever!
Because our patrons asked for it, William Bibbiani picked the topic for this month's THE IRON LIST! And he picked a topic that Witney Seibold has been vetoing…
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Critically Acclaimed #336 | I Know What You Did Last Summer, Eddington, My Mom Jane
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold tackle the killer fisherman movie I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, as well as Ari Aster's COVID thriller EDDINGTON, and…
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We've Got Mail #183 | Emotional Support Cats?!
This time on WE'VE GOT MAIL, Bibbs and Witney find out that yes, there is a fan of Disney's HOME ON THE RANGE and/or CHICKEN LITTLE! And they wrote in! Yay!…
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Critically Acclaimed #335 | Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, KPop Demon Hunters, Hot Spring Shark Attack, The Old Guard 2, Kill the Jockey, Abraham's Boys, To a Land Unknown, Sovereign, Apocalypse in the Tropics
Bibbs and Witney have finally returned from their respective vacations and they're diving right back into film criticism with reviews of SUPERMAN, JURASSIC…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkStar Trek: Section 31 (2025) | The Critically Acclaimed Commentary Track
William Bibbiani is out of commission, so Witney Seibold is free to do whatever the hell he wants! And he wants to do more STAR TREK, because of course he…
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Critically Acclaimed #334 | Elio, How to Train Your Dragon, 28 Years Later, Bride Hard, Materialists, Everything's Going to Be Great, The Unholy Trinity, F1 The Movie
Bibbs and Witney review the new Pixar sci-fi movie ELIO, the live-action remake of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, the horror threequel 28 YEARS LATER, the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #66 | The Best Road Trip Movies Ever!
Because our patrons demanded it, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present their picks for THE BEST ROAD TRIP MOVIES EVER! These movies traverse…
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Critically Acclaimed #333 | From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, Predator: Killer of Killers, The Life of Chuck, Dangerous Animals, Echo Valley
This week, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the new action spin-off FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA, the animated Predator sequel…
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Critically Acclaimed #332 | Karate Kid: Legends, The Phoenician Scheme, Bring Her Back
Bibbs and Witney get crane kicked in the face! Or they review movies! Either one is fine really. This week, we've got reviews of KARATE KID: LEGENDS, the new…
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We've Got Mail #182 | When is Jarnathan Getting Here?
Bibbs and Witney read YOUR letters and answer YOUR questions about boutique Blu-ray labels, movies that hate movies, and when the heck Jarnathan is getting…
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Critically Acclaimed #331 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Hurry Up Tomorrow, Lilo & Stitch, Fountain of Youth, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Fear Street: Prom Queen
Bibbs and Witney review (the allegedly final) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, the Weeknd's self-fascinated HURRY UP TOMORROW, the live-action Disney…
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We've Got Mail #181 | Noir vs. Neo-Noir
NOTE: We had some audio problems with this podcast, so you may need to boost your volume a bit more than usual. Apologies! Bibbs and Witney read more of YOUR…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #65 | The Best Movies That Begin with the Letter "L"
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present the best movies that have only one thing in common: They all begin with the letter "L!" It's…
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Critically Acclaimed #330 | Clown in a Cornfield, Fight or Flight, Absolute Dominion, Summer of 69, Juliet & Romeo
Bibbs and Witney review the new slasher CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, the Josh Hartnett action-comedy FIGHT OR FLIGHT, the atheist fighting tournament thriller…
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The Iron List #64 | The Best Ragtag Team of Misfits Movies
These scrappy mismatched underdogs could never pull of this incredible heist! Or make an incredible movie! Or win this incredible sports thing! Because our…
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Critically Acclaimed #329 | Thunderbolts*, Another Simple Favor, Rust, Fréwaka, Lavender Men
Bibbs and Witney review Marvel's THUNDERBOLTS*, Paul Feig's sequel ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR, the tragic western RUST, the Shudder horror film FRÉWAKA, and the…
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Critically Acclaimed #328 | Sinners, Until Dawn, Havoc, On Swift Horses, Dead Mail, Sneaks
Bibbs and Witney review the astounding new 1930s gangster blues musical vampire movie SINNERS, the horror video game adaptation (sort of) UNTIL DAWN, Gareth…
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We've Got Mail #180 | The P.O. Box Awakens! The Crimson Dynamo, Zines and More!
Witney opened our P.O. Box and a ton of mail fell out, so here's an extra episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL dedicated to everyone who took the time to send us snail…
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We've Got Mail #179 | Can the Halloween Franchise Be Saved?
Is it better for a filmmaker to make a million movies or just a handful of great ones? Whatever happens to festival movies that don't get distribution? Is…
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Critically Acclaimed #327 | The Amateur, Drop, G20, Warfare, The King of Kings, One to One: John and Yoko
Bibbs and Witney review the spy thingy THE AMATEUR, Christopher Landon's Hitchcockian thriller DROP, Viola Davis doing Die Hard at G20, Alex Garland…
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Critically Acclaimed #326 | A Minecraft Movie, Screamboat, The Luckiest Man in America, Hell of a Summer
This week, Bibbs and Witney review the blockbuster video game movie A MINECRAFT MOVIE, the public domain comedy slasher SCREAMBOAT, the game show biopic THE…
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Critically Acclaimed #325 | Snow White, The Woman in the Yard, The Alto Knights, O'Dessa, The Penguin Lessons, Popeye the Slayer Man, Ash
How bad could SNOW WHITE possibly be? Could it really be worse than THE ALTO KNIGHTS? Bibbs and Witney review those big epic flops, and also the horror movie…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #63 | The Best Knockoff Movies Ever!
Because our patrons demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for the best films that flagrantly knocked off a pre-existing work! You can probably…
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We've Got Mail #178 | What Are Our Favorite Pokemon?!
Also on WE'VE GOT MAIL, Bibbs and Witney talk about movies famous for one shot or cinematic technique, why they've been too hard on Bones in the original STAR…
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Critically Acclaimed #324 | The Electric State, The Day the Earth Blew Up, The Rule of Jenny Pen, Black Bag, Mickey 17, Novocaine, Night of the Zoopocalypse, Opus, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Queen of the Ring, My Dead Friend Zoe, The Parenting
Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the Russo Brothers' THE ELECTRIC STATE, the Looney Tunes movie THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP, the Shudder…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #264 | Spicy City (1997) w/ M. Lopes Da Silva!
The year was 1997, and American networks were racing to release their first animated primetime series just for adults! SOUTH PARK may be the one we all…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Iron List #62 | The Worst Movies of the 21st Century (So Far)!
Because our patrons demanded it, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold present a companion piece to their BEST MOVIES OF THE 21st CENTURY (SO FAR)…
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Critically Acclaimed #323 | Oscar Shorts and Predictions 2025!
We're down to the wire but we made it, right on time! Bibbs and Witney review all 15 of this year's Oscar-nominated shorts and present they think will win -…
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Critically Acclaimed #322 | Captain America: Brave New World, The Monkey, The Gorge, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, The Dead Thing, Cleaner
There's nothing brave about CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (or new, for the matter), but Bibbs and Witney review it anyway! Plus: Osgood Perkins' horror…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #263 | The Oblongs (2001-2002) w/ Chelsea Spirito!
The dubba-dubba-WB won a bidding war for a cartoon sitcom about a mutated family who live in the landfill of an affluent suburb. Then they canceled it after…