It has already begun: the long march towards coronating a new quartet of actors whose performances are deemed the finest of 2023. And while the Oscars, Globes, and flurry of other guild awards tend to recognize the same handful of actors over and over again, here at Silver Screen Riot,
Gary Oldman Is Too Hard on His Harry Potter Performances as Sirius Black
Gary Oldman had a confession to make when he appeared on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast: He is not a fan of his performances as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter franchise. Sitting down with the media journalist during the last days of 2023, Oldman was in good spirits
“I’m Just Ken” And The Perils Of The Patriarchy
It’s rare, nowadays, to see a musical number as viral or thematically rich as “I’m Just Ken”. The sole song-and-dance sequence in Barbie (2023) reached a million downloads on Spotify in one day (that’s before the film even released on July 21!). It also quickly became one of the film’s most
Tombstone: A Classic That Proved Its Doubting Studio Wrong
In February 1994, Roger Ebert felt like he was the last one to get to the party when it came to celebrating a new movie. This would usually be a strange thing for a film critic to admit, particularly when he has a Pulitzer Prize. But despite—or perhaps because—he and
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