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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It was SO GREAT having Dana on for this episode, even though she had to tolerate my making the case for DIGGER

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now

He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sexy hockey, wholesome hockey, all the genres

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sorry to cinema but the highlight of my Toronto trip has been discovering that there's a Canadian TV show in which Jason Priestley plays a former hockey player who solves crimes www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Kl...

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"Private Eyes" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The first time I ever had one was in a restaurant in Oxford, IA, the pork was basically the size of the entire plate and I'm pretty sure I laughed out loud when I saw the proportions. An incredible sandwich!

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I got to talk about One Night Only aka Sex Purge on today’s Critical Darlings podcast with the great @rilaws.bsky.social and @alisonwillmore.bsky.social!!!

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Of all the little things that inevitably don't end up fitting in the final draft of a profile, this is the bit I loved the most

Not so long ago, that now-friend who they'd met watching a Michael Haneke movie on a sofa had a Whose Line Is It Anyway-themed birthday party. There with all these queer, trans adults, playing improv games from a dead-then-resurrected-then-dead-again network comedy show together, Schoenbrun had the thought: Wow, we're kind of close to God right now.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wow I need to order one of these for @rilaws.bsky.social and make him wear it and escort me to a Halloween party as proof of our friendship

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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Here is the first new Filmspotting: SVU in eight years, with a review of Outcome, streaming recommendations on numerous platforms, a game I invented involving Letterboxd stats, and a surprisingly lengthy discussion of astronaut bathroom etiquette.

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Apple TV’s Outcome: Testing the Limits of Keanu’s Likability

Podcast Episode · Filmspotting · April 14 · 1h 37m

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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

After 8 years, Filmspotting SVU, the podcast about streaming movies, is back. Alison Willmore’s already doing Critical Darlings (which is great!) so I needed a new co-host. My wife told me the only person who could replace Alison was @jhoffman.bsky.social, so that’s who I got to do it. Tuesday!

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

First I've heard of them, def going to look them up!

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Also there are still a few tickets left for the opening night screening of the funny, bittersweet indie FANTASY LIFE at the Angelika — I'll be doing a Q&A after with Amanda Peet and Matthew Shear angelikafilmcenter.com/nyc/sessions...

Amanda Peet, playing an actor and mother of three named Dianne, sits cozily on a sofa next to writer/director/star Matthew Shear, a younger man who plays the nanny her character hires, in a still from FANTASY LIFE

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Critical Darlings, the podcast that @rilaws.bsky.social and I launched during award season, is going year-round and has its own feed and everything. Take a gander at our new episode, on PROJECT HAIL MARY, Ryan Gosling as movie star, and, FINE, award prospects podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Critical Darlings

Film Reviews Podcast · Updated Weekly · Welcome to Critical Darlings: a podcast about the movies everyone is talking about, one new release after another. Every week, critics Richard Lawson and Aliso...

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

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The A.V. Club hiring Film Critic in Greater Chicago Area | LinkedIn

Posted 8:42:22 PM. The A.V. Club is seeking an experienced Film Critic to join our team of trenchant writers and…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Yeah, it did not exist when I was a teen — and it’s enormous! Still hard for me to wrap my head around

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Okay but the important issue here: Cal High or Dougherty Valley?

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

He’s been issued stern spoiler warnings

An ewok-looking dog is watching THE PITT screeners on a laptop

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I did not write the headline and nothing you're complaining about has relevance to the piece, which is my response to one from Dana about how her feelings are much more in line with yours, nor my post, which again make it clear this is my opinion

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Well, it's a good thing I was talking about my feelings and not yours!

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My second Slate Movie Club dispatch, in which I blather about my love of abrasive on-screen experiences and about Mary and Ronnie Bronstein

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Why We Love a Loathsome Protagonist

Sometimes, you just need to wallow in the discomfort.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A relief to know this was for an actual study and that I wasn't actually unknowingly enlisted to fulfill someone's extremely specific kink lol

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The first episode of Critical Darlings, the podcast @rilaws.bsky.social and I are hosting as part of the Blank Check Cinematic Universe, is live! JOIN US overcast.fm/+ABLIFo_rhLw

Awards envelope-inspired artwork for the Critical Darlings podcast, with drawings of Richard Lawson and of me

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Been wrestling with JAY KELLY, and why I think George Clooney's actual relationship with his own celebrity is more interesting than the emptiness-of-the-A-lister angst he performs on screen www.vulture.com/article/is-g...

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George Clooney’s Unconvincing Movie-Star Angst

He plays a famous actor in Jay Kelly — but Clooney’s own relationship with celebrity is far more interesting.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Man, I'm never going back to Twitter, but getting replies that are either "PAYWALL" or "I can't take you seriously because you used hyperbolic language, I have never 'lost my mind' over anything" is a great reminder of why I have so much trouble getting motivated to post on here

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Thanks for letting me know, unpleasant internet stranger!

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Feels great to be coming out of podcast semi-retirement and to be getting an excuse to blather about movies on the regular with Richard, who will soon be filled with regret when I try to make "wrong kid died!" into some kind of regular bit about HAMNET

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Most underrated movie of the year! Just total delight!

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

THE NAKED GUN, BLACK BAG, ONE OF THEM DAYS, WEAPONS

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Met up with Nic Rapold, who was heroically coherent despite being fresh off a plane, on the terrace of the Palais to talk about SOUND OF FALLING and another early premiere, ENZO, on his podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Ep. 313: Alison Willmore on Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling, Enzo, and a look at the lineup

Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 05/14/2025 · 25m

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

You are being far too generous with me, but thank you

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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Man, at a time when we've gotten so resigned to commercial interests trampling art and community, reading this is just the coolest fucking thing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

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At Milestone Films, Passing the Torch, but Keeping the Flame Alive

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Look at this massive lad, fresh from having rounded the talk show circuit, taking a break on the Angelika green room rug between Q&As

Bing the black and white Great Dane, star of THE FRIEND, sprawled out on a rug like the big shot he is

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I've never been! Curious about what the city has committed to in terms of construction, etc.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Seriously, though, moving from a small expensive mountain town to a medium-sized expensive mountain town doesn't feel like it's going to do much to reinvigorate a festival that has felt more and more insular over the years

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