Michael Carvelli

TOP 25: 2025 Spirit Awards Nominees My favorites among this year's nominees at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Another pretty great year of nominees. Highly recommend checking out as many of these as you can.

My top 25 from everything honored by
@filmindependent.org this year.

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Cinematography: Jomo Fray (Nickel Boys)
Editing: The Apprentice
Documentary: No Other Land
International: Hard Truths
John Cassavetes Award (not on my ballot, but if I had a vote): Ghostlight

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Lead Performance: Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
Supporting Performance: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
Breakout Performance: Maisy Stella (My Old Ass)

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The Spirit Awards are today, so as always here was my ballot I submitted a few weeks back.

Feature: Nickel Boys
Director: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain)
First Feature: Didi
First Screenplay: Sean Wang (Didi)

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A ★★★½ review of The Apprentice (2024) What if I told you this would be a fascinating double feature with Wicked? To see, through Sebastian Stan's outstanding lead performance, Donald Trump be taken under the wing of Roy Cohn and slowly ev...

THE APPRENTICE features Sebastian Stan + Jeremy Strong both at the peak of their powers.

Fascinating Frankenstein story about Roy Cohn losing control of the monster he created and all the things that eventually became way worse because of it.

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A ★★★★ review of Wicked (2024) So much that I really enjoyed about this (particularly Grande and Erivo's performances) and the high moments of this really carry it to being an awesome movie-going experience. Easily watchable and en...

Wicked was simultaneously as good as I had hoped it would be while also giving me some slight panic about how so many of these major event movies look the same and are all made with an eye on what the next movie is going to be

Grande & Erivo ruled. Can’t wait for Part 2.

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03.12.2024 06:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tucker DeVries celebrates a WVU win over Gonzaga

we're so back

Feels amazing to have a fun basketball team again.

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What are your top 3 horror films of 2024 so far? 🕸️🦇⚰️🩸🔪

1. The Substance
2. Longlegs
3. Strange Darling/I Saw the TV Glow

(cheating I know, but wanted to include a fourth)

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A ★★★ review of Thelma (2024) Really fun, wholesome watch that also finds a way to say some interesting things about growing older and how we depend on people as time goes on. June Squibb anchors with a standout performance, and w...

Watched THELMA, a movie about an elderly woman trying to get back money she got scammed out of, with my parents today.

Then it felt appropriate to see my mom immediately click a strange link on Facebook to find out what church hymn she was most like.

Fun movie!

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25.11.2024 02:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A ★★★½ review of Gladiator II (2024) Liked it quite a bit, but never hits the heights of the original — in part due to how often and how obviously it calls back to it. I wish they let some of the parts that are supposed to feel fun and e...

Watched Gladiator II, where Paul Mescal bites an ape’s leg off, they make A LOT of references to the first movie, and I mostly had a great time. Denzel’s the MVP.

Hail Dondus.

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