Oscar-nominated Kate Hudson and Co-star Hugh Jackman in Craig Brewer's Song Sung Blue . With apologies to Neil Diamond... Song sung blue. Everybody's knows one. Oscar gold. Everybody wants some. Funny thing, but you can see it when the noms are revealed. All the snubs and slights emerge, no offenses concealed. It's been a fairly uneventful week in terms of Oscar nominations. Critical darling One Battle After Another showed continued awards season momentum. Sinners emerged as

Some of the 2025 movies honored by the American Film Institute (AFI): Top Left, Frankenstein ; Top Right, Hamnet ; Bottom Left, Marty Supreme ; Bottome Right. Note : MJ's reviews of all the movies mentioned here can be found at MJtheMovies homepage. It's that time of year that, for some of us, is as exciting as the holidays themselves: reviewing the year in film, identifying the best movies of 2025, and looking ahead to the awards season, which has already begun via many regi

Will Arnett in Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? I hate it when movie titles end with punctuation. It makes writing a review all that more challenging, especially when the title is a question. I'll stop whining now. Bradley Cooper's intimate portrait about the trauma of divorce raises more questions than the simplistic one in its title, a reference to the kind of query an amateur thrust onto a stage might make when being handed a mic: "Is this thing on?" You get the idea. B

Timothée Chalamet as ping-pong virtuoso Marty Mauser in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme. Timothée Chalamet aspires to greatness. Just ask him. At last year's SAG Awards when he accepted the "Actor" for Best Male Lead in a Movie (for playing a "version" of folk rock icon Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown ), Chalamet gushed to his fellow actors that he wanted to be one of the greats: “ I'm really in pursuit of greatness … I want to be one of the greats; I'm inspired by the greats ,”