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But, as any number of critical darlings of years past can attest to, a high Metacritic score is not the only ingredient for Oscar success.

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After the dust settled at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, Hulu walked away with two of the night's biggest awards in the television categories, while Amazon saw yet another comedy series crowned a critical darling by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

The film marks a transition for actor Andrew Garfield, from blockbuster superhero, to critical darling, in a starring role that is already being called one of the year's most powerful.

His ace in the hole, though, is the top - notch cast of Oscar winners (Hopkins, Blanchett) and critical darlings (Hiddleston, Goldblum, Ruffalo, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch and let's add Thompson as the lovely badass, Scrapper 142 / Valkyrie), each of whom knows exactly what this material needs.

The effortless richness of character that so thoroughly grounded Haigh's Oscar - nominated 45 Years and his critical darling Weekend is half - heartedly formed in Pete.

Kawase's Shara (2003) is a critical darling, on which most of her western festival reputation is based.

One of these could easily become an Oscar frontunner, especially Carol, which is bound to be the critical darling of 2015 and for good reason: Todd Haynes» movie is a beautifully shot masterpiece that features career best work by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and has socially relevant themes at its core.

Brilliantly structured as a contemporary chamber drama about loving your neighbours in the first part and, in the second, as a dreamy silent film re-imagining of their heretofore unknown histories, this is the rare critical darling that's as warm as it is intelligent.

It's not often than a horror movie becomes a critical darling, wins directing awards and pops up on various Top Ten lists across the more respected sectors of the critical community.

Much will be said about the deflating prospects of Boyhood, a film that went from critical darling to inevitable winner to virtual bust.

The game was a critical darling, giving the Elder Scrolls formula a kind of clarity and fidelity that enabled the franchise to add millions of new fans.

American Graffiti became the darling of the critical fraternity, but it was upstaged at the last minute by the release of Truffaut's Day for Night, which won both the New York Critics and the National Society of Film Critics best film award.

The Academy used to nominate box - office smashes that weren't exactly «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» (ex: «Love Story» and «Star Wars»), while moviegoers would turn critical darlings, such as «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» into box - office smashes (it was the No. 2 grosser of 1975, making the equivalent of $ 493 million).

A recent late alpha build shows that the design team members are spending most of their time fine - tuning the features that have made the game such a critical darling over the past few years.

The constant presence of Manchester, in the background, in theory, as critical darling, as awards contender, turned my anticipation into fear so gradually that I didn't notice until the opportunity to see the damn thing finally presented itself.

At age 11, she was the second - youngest winner of all time (Tatum O'Neal was only 10 when she won for Paper Moon), and her performance turned out to be no fluke: Not only is she still around 20 years later, the star of a hit TV series, but her stunning work in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret recently made her a critical darling all over again as an adult.

Civil War dramas tend to be critical darlings (i.e. «Gone With the Wind,» «Lincoln,» «12 Years a Slave») but reviewers are calling Matthew McConaughey's «Free State of Jones» «tone - deaf» and a «drab drama.»

You'd think that a film with Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne — from writer / director Richard Linklater — would be either a box office hit, an overwhelming critical darling, an awards contender, or a combination of the three.

Many are pegging Spike Jonze's Her as the «critical darling» candidate in this year's awards race, and reviews out of the New York Film Festival praised Phoenix for his performance as a man who falls in love with his operating system.

Video game movies have not exactly been considered critical darlings throughout their history, however, this hasn't stopped film studios from taking chances on these types of movies.

The category of Best Motion Picture — Drama was easier to predict, favoring such critical darlings as Todd Haynes's «Carol,» George Miller's «Mad Max: Fury Road» (which many viewers would consider quite comedic), Alejandro González Iñárritu's «The Revenant» and Todd McCarthy's «Spotlight.»

The wunderkind's previous two movies — 2013 Sundance darling Fruitvale Station, about the killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man shot in the back by police while facedown on an Oakland subway platform; and 2015's Rocky reboot, Creed, about a young boxer who grows up in juvenile detention and learns to channel his anger in the ring — were both critical and box - office hits, leaving little doubt Coogler was up to the challenge.

Kristen Stewart surprised with her supporting actress win for «Clouds of Sils Maria,» beating out heavy hitters Kate Winslet («Steve Jobs»), Elizabeth Banks («Love & Mercy»), and critical darling Alicia Vikander («Ex Machina»), while Mark Rylance won for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg's latest Tom Hanks vehicle, «Bridge of Spies.»

«Game of Thrones» With the White Walkers finally at the wall, the Season 7 stakes of HBO's critical darling boasted series - best performances from Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster - Waldau, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams.

DeHaan («Kill Your Darlings»), a rising actor whose performance as the Goblin (aka Harry Osborn) is one of the highlights of the film, says he had to lobby for the critical role because he was practically unknown when casting was under way.

Blade Runner 2049 is a critical darling, and it's shaping up to be one of this year's biggest contenders at the Academy Awards.

Fast track to 2015, and The Tree Of Life is a Palme D'Or winner, an important player in the year that turned out to be The Year Of Jessica Chastain (forget Pitt and Penn, though the former is outstanding here as well), and a gargantuan critical darling.

It is not the first time Greengrass has examined a standoff with international overtones set in a confined space — «United 93,» a critical darling when it was released in 2006, followed some of the same trajectory in telling the story of a 9/11 hijacking.

However, this year we had a number of women directors produce high - profile, critical darlings — and still no nominations.

This movie may not be the critical darling one would expect from an austere adaptation of Strindberg, by Liv Ullmann, starring Jessica Chastain.

Despite its lack of box office success, it was something of a critical darling, and Keaton's performance is not to be missed.

Gravity still sits pretty as a critical darling that will have the backing of the mainstream, who rushed out to see it this weekend to a tune of more than $ 50 million and for it, is likely to take home a bulk of the technical categories.

HBO's fantasy drama Game Of Thrones has been a rare combination of a ratings smash, cultural phenomenon and a critical darling, winning the Best Drama Series Emmy last yeaOf Thrones has been a rare combination of a ratings smash, cultural phenomenon and a critical darling, winning the Best Drama Series Emmy last yeaof a ratings smash, cultural phenomenon and a critical darling, winning the Best Drama Series Emmy last year.

Why It Could Succeed: Coming off of the cult favorite «Drive» (also a critical darling, if a big Oscar snub come nomination morning), any reuniting of filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling was going to draw major notice.

Genisys may not be a smash hit or a critical darling (early reviews are even worse than they were on 2009's ill - received Terminator Salvation), but for a 31 - year - old franchise of modest origin to still be spawning serviceable pieces of entertainment is no minor achievement.

Best of times His Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises) had a combined worldwide gross of $ 2.5 bn, confirming that Nolan, always a critical darling, was also a commercial force.

With his latest film, Mommy, another critical darling, Xavier Dolan has his sights set on his next project, with the cast announced for his new film Only the End of the World (Juste La Fin Du Monde).

Meanwhile, stars who don't fall into the category of being critical darlings sometimes seem less excited to find themselves in the middle of critical cross-hairs.

The patrons either go for a critical darling from the last year or some flick that has been on the shelf for an extended period of time.

Inarritu, a critical darling of the Mexican film scene, takes a wildly different approach to Birdman than his previous forays like Babel and Amores Perros.

A glance down the list of past NYFCC and LAFCA winners only emphasises the already well - known fact that the gap between critical darlings and Academy fare can be gratifyingly vast: the list of films that snagged top honors from either group only to miss the Oscar dartboard ranges from «Brazil» to «Topsy - Turvy,» from «Mulholland Drive» to «Do the Right Thing.»

His RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, and Showgirls have each enjoyed long, healthy second lives as critical darlings; in his way, he's the Douglas Sirk of the late -»80s / early -»90s: dismissed in the moment, but appreciated through the perspective afforded by time.

In a rather short period of time, he's gone from a character actor to a critical darling to a superstar, with an Academy Award nomination thrown in there for good -LSB-...]

It's sweeping all the others awards, it's a critical darling, and perfect example of a writer and director creating a compelling piece of filmmaking.

The one time critical darling has, in recent years, drawn resistance from a sizable group of vocal detractors.

If push came to shove, I could crank out a list of 100 movies that I loved this year including everything from critical darling The Florida Project down to cinematic popcorn Kong: Skull Island and be entirely happy recommending each and every movie on that list.

Without accusing any of them of bias against Angelina Jolie as a filmmaker, they cite such things as the length 137 - minute run time, and its grim subject matter, despite knowing that venerable critical darlings like The Deer Hunter are grimmer and longer.

After being consecrated as one of the most exciting filmmakers working today with her critical darling third feature We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), Lynne Ramsay was on board to helm Natalie Portman - starrer Jane Got A Gun but creative differences drove her to leave the project behind.