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Does the new horror movie SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK do any justice to the classic book series by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell? Does THE KITCHEN make the most of awesome cast members Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elizabeth Moss and Margot Martindale? And will we have the most political fan mail segment we’ve ever had?! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer all these questions and more in the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, follow Liz Shannon Miller at @Lizlet, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:39 - Introductions 2:42 - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 34:38 - The Kitchen 46:52 - Fan Mail

You asked us to review of the grossest superhero movies ever made, and we salute you for it! This week on THE TWO-SHOT, film critics William Bibbiani review Brian Yuzna’s disgusting FAUST: LOVE OF THE DAMNED and pair it up with, for reasons that will eventually become obvious, George Miller’s Oscar-winning feminist action classic MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content!

The FAST AND FURIOUS franchise gets faster and even more furious with HOBBS AND SHAW, the new spin-off starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take a look under the hood to see if it keeps pace with the other great films in this series, and they also review the new indie releases THE NIGHTINGALE and LOVE, ANTOSHA and the Netflix Original OTHERHOOD. Plus, Bibbs and Witney read more of your letters and find out just how snooty they really are! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, follow Liz Shannon Miller at @Lizlet, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:36 - Introductions 3:27 - Hobbs and Shaw 39:51 - The Nightingale 57:15 - Otherhood 1:02:20

Half-shark, half-octopus, all cheesy! That’s the SHARKTOPUS movies for you, a series of extremely low-budget monster movies where a Sharktopus fights a Pteracuda AND a Whalewolf and bungee jumpers get devoured in mid-bounce and Conan O’Brien’s severed head gets used as a volleyball. Are the SHARKTOPUS movies as good as they sound? Are they as bad as they sound? And are they the key to unlocking hidden truths about cinema itself? Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content!

Quentin Tarantino has a new movie, and that means Witney Seibold can’t review it! Liz Shannon Miller from the Movie Trivia Schmoedown is here to help William Bibbiani dissect the career of Tarantino and crack open his new, polarizing film about the film and television industry in 1969! But don’t worry, Witney fans. He’s still here and he’s got a review of the new Jeff Goldblum drama THE MOUNTAIN, just for you! Also this week, Bibbs, Witney and Liz say goodbye to the late, great RUTGER HAUER and answer YOUR letters! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, follow Liz Shannon Miller at @Lizlet, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:35 - Introductions 8:00 - Rutger Hauer 25:13 - The Mountain 42:39

Ben Bateman from ACTION INDUSTRIES stops by while Witney is out of town, to team up with William Bibbiani and reveal their picks for THE TOP 10 SUPERHERO MOVIES EVER MADE! And oh yeah, some of their picks will surprise you. Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! And don’t forget to follow Ben Bateman at @BenBateman and @TeamActionShow! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content!

Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, and Tracy Morgan… are… G-FORCE, a team of adorable superspy guinea pigs who team up to escape a pet store and save the planet from an evil billionaire with plan to turn every household appliance into a killer robot! Classy! And yet, somehow it’s the perfect double feature for the under appreciated but absolutely brilliant MYSTERY, starring Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Janeane Garofalo and Hank Azaria are D-list superheroes who get their turn in the spotlight after their city’s most popular protector goes missing! (And yes, it IS a classic.) Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and

THE LION KING is a visual marvel, but does it also kind of suck? This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the latest Disney remake, along with new releases CRAWL, THE FAREWELL, THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE, POINT BLANK and INTO THE ASHES! Also this week, Bibbs and Witney say goodbye to the late, great RIP TORN and answer YOUR letters! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:31 - Introductions 3:08 - Rip Torn 16:12 - Crawl 29:08 - The Farewell 35:30 - The Art of Self-Defense 44:04 - Point Blank 54:21 - Into the Ashes 58:55 - The Lion King 1:40:06 - Fan Mail

Spider-Man is a serial killer who’s also a counterfeiter! Captain America teams up with Mexican wrestler superhero El Santo to take him down in Turkey! It’s the strange story of 3 DEV ADAM, aka 3 GIANT MEN, aka TURKISH CAPTAIN AMERICA VS. SPIDER-MAN, a cheap knockoff of popular international characters that you kind of have to see to believe! And yet, this strange cult classic somehow manages to be the perfect double feature with Warren Beatty’s DICK TRACY, a gangster movie that won three Academy Awards and stands out as, perhaps, the best comic book movie of the 1990s. Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over

Chuck Norris fights an undead serial killer in SILENT RAGE, a film with a premise so unbelievably awesome, you’re probably wondering why you’ve never heard of it before. Well, that’s because it nobody liked it very much, and the reviews led Chuck Norris to change his career and avoid sex scenes like the plague. So why is this notorious dud the perfect double feature with Adam Wingard’s THE GUEST, a 2014 horror/action hybrid starring Dan Stevens and Maika Monroe? And why, even though most people never heard of it, is THE GUEST one of the best genre films of the last decade? Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over

We’re halfway through the year, so we’re counting down our picks for the best movies of 2019 so far! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold couldn’t agree on ANYTHING so it’s a cavalcade of different great films for you to catch up with. Also this week, Bibbs and Witney review the new releases SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME and MIDSOMMAR, and discuss the latest news about CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED from the Movie Trivia Schmoedown! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:48 - Introductions 3:32 - Movie Trivia Schmoedown 13:25 - Spider-Man: Far From Home 53:31 - Midsommar 1:16:52 - The Best Movies of 2019 (So Far)!

Charles M. Schultz’s melancholy comic strip PEANUTS became a series of hit films from 1969 through 1980, and a CG-animated film in 2015! Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Marcy, Snoopy and Woodstock all show up for these comic misadventures, which involve loneliness, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, misery and laughter! This week on THE TWO-SHOT, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold explore every single one of these feature films to figure out what PEANUTS is really about, why the sad versions are the best versions, why adults should NEVER talk, and why Charles M. Schulz’s creations may be specifically responsible for the mental health issues of one of our hosts. (Maybe.) Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to

Killer dolls! Killer dolls! Why, oh why, are there so many new films about killer dolls?! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani catch up on the new releases TOY STORY 4, CHILD’S PLAY and ANNABELLE COMES HOME - which all have scary living dolls in them - as well as the thriller ANNA, the Shakespeare reimagining OPHELIA, and the agricultural zombie movie ENDZEIT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:48 - Introductions 4:00 - Toy Story 4 34:45 - Child’s Play 55:16 - Annabelle Comes Home 1:09:41 - Anna 1:24:20 - Ophelia 1:39:12 - Endzeit

In the 1990s, when cyborg Denzel Washington wasn’t fighting white supremacists in a futuristic prison, he was hunting virtual reality serial killers in nanotech bodies that looked just like Russell Crowe. That’s the premise of the supremely weird VIRTUOSITY, a cyber thriller about artificial intelligence and Russell Crowe eating glass. And somehow, it’s the perfect double feature with ENCHANTED, a modern Disney classic about an animated princess who gets trapped in the cynical, real world! See where we’re going with this? Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to t

Three new movies seem to be disappointing audiences last weekend, but are they really all that bad? Maybe not! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL, SHAFT, THE DEAD DON’T DIE and, just for the heck of it, THE SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE! Also this week, we’re answering YOUR emails about everything from HOME ALONE to what good movies can possibly do in a world as crazy and chaotic as this one! It’s gonna be a doozy, folks! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 1:17 - Introductions 5:11 - Men in Black: International 30:30 - Shaft 58:00 - The Dead Don’t Die 1:11:45 - The Spy Behind Home

Clint Eastwood cast three heroic soldiers as themselves in THE 15:17 TO PARIS, a drama nobody much cared for, even though its heart was probably in the right place. What went wrong with Eastwood’s ambitious cinematic experiment, and why is this disappointing drama the perfect double feature with William Wyler’s post-World War II Best Picture winner, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES? Let’s find out! Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content!

The X-Men franchise comes to a close and we’re really hungry! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED we’re taking one last look at the X-Men movie franchise with our review of DARK PHOENIX, exploring THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2, taking a trip to LATE NIGHT and breaking our hearts with the animated drama FUNAN. Also, this week William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dive into their favorite food movies ever, with comedies, dramas and documentaries that’ll make your mouth water! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 1:07 - Introductions 5:05 - Dark Phoenix 36:08 - The Secret Life of Pets 2 52:01 - Late Night 58:36 - Funan 1:08:25 - Our Favorite Food Movies

There are nine PLANET OF THE APES movies and we’re going to review them all on this week’s episode of THE TWO-SHOT! From the original Oscar-winning sci-fi classic to all the weird, cynical and unexpectedly funny sequels, to Tim Burton’s ill-fated reboot to the blockbuster CGI spectacle trilogy, we’re giving you everything you need to know about of the most important and influential movie franchises of all time. Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they show you the place where good taste and bad taste collide, every week on THE TWO-SHOT! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:27 - Introductions 2:10 - Planet of the Apes (1968) 27:34 - Bene

Godzilla is back and he’s stomping every danged monster in sight! This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, the new Octavia Spencer horror movie MA, the latest Brian De Palma thriller DOMINO, and the Netflix comedy ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE. Plus, we gave away an episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED as part of a sweepstakes, and the winner wanted us to present our picks for the best animal movies! Get ready, because we’ve got horror movies, animated classics and more! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:01 - Introduction 6:33 - Robert Pattinson is Batman 11:49 - Godzilla: King of the Monster

Have you ever said “I’ll wait for Netflix?” If so, you’re part of a new generation. The industry is changing, and seeing movies on the big screen is a luxury that many audience members reserve for big spectacles. But does the ease of digital streaming devalue the art of cinema? And what are we sacrificing in favor of convenience? On this week’s CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold discuss the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the evolving movie marketplace, and also review the new releases ALADDIN, BRIGHTBURN, THE PERFECTION, SEE YOU YESTERDAY and BOOKSMART! Email us at letters(a)criticallyacclaimed.net, follow your hosts on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and @WitneySeibold, and follow the podcast/website at @CriticAcclaim to vote for the notorious movies YOU want us to review! Check out our website at www.criticallyacclaimed.net and head on over to www.patreon.com/criticacclaim to contribute to the show and get even more exclusive content! 0:01 - Introduction 2:17 - Aladdin