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Seattle Film Critics @seattlecritics.bsky.social · 4d

Announcing the nominees for the Seattle Film Critics Society's 2025 Best Pacific Northwest Film award with a screening series at @siffnews.bsky.social

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · 8d

Dwayne Johnson gives his all to a movie less about brawling and MMA and more about his character's internal struggles.

His Oscar buzz is legitimate. However, with THE SMASHING MACHINE, has a movie ever been this afraid of its own shadow?

Now playing everywhere.

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Should I See It-The Smashing Machine (2025)

MMA fighter Mark Kerr reaches the peak of his career but faces personal hardships along the way.

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · 15d

All five stars go to Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - a defining film of not just 2025, but also the decade.

Now playing everywhere. Messy and brilliant and anxious and tense and funny - a masterclass in storytelling, performance, and craftsmanship.

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Should I See It-One Battle After Another (2025)

Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing...

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · 17d

Cal hits 60. The AL West is won for the first time since 2001. A first-round bye is almost clinched.

And ironically, the Astros lost 6-0 tonight.

You gotta love these guys.

A graphic that celebrates the Seattle Mariners winning the AL West Division title in the 2025 baseball season.

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SharonA is watching baseball @sharonawrites.bsky.social · 17d

2025 American League West Division Champions, the Seattle Mariners! 🔱

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · 22d

HIM isn’t the GOAT, a Hall of Famer, or someone with a solid career - it’s a bust … a high-profile draft pick, with all the expectations from a rabid fan base, that makes so many errors and mistakes you can’t bench HIM fast enough.

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Should I See It-HIM (2025)

A promising young football player, is invited to train at the isolated compound of a legendary quarterback, who takes his new protégé on a blood-chilling journey into the inner sanctum of fame, power ...

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 27d

wow

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · 29d

Seeing this right before the week spiraled out of control, I felt like DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE was, at the time, a palette cleanser of a film - that still holds true, even if it’s a bit weird to write and talk about movies right now.

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Should I See It-Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as ...

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why is it so catchy?!?

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 31

Resistance is futile.

A poster for the film K-POP Demon Hunters

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 30

Tickets: tix.northbendtheatre.com/event/to-kil...

North Bend Theatre - To Kill A Wolf with Live Q&A (Saturday September 6th @7pm)

Movie Theater Movie Showtimes

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 30

Local post: They’re giving me a microphone - but most importantly, you get to meet the amazing filmmaking team behind TO KILL A WOLF, one of the year’s best films … independent or otherwise. If you’re near the land of Twin Peaks, pay us a visit on September 6 at 7:00 pm!

A movie poster for the film To Kill a Wolf

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 30

Austin Butler leads Darren Aronofsky’s comedic crime caper CAUGHT STEALING, a gritty, grimy tale that has a lot of villains and bad guys swirling around, but is also kind of about how a man and his cat are not easily separated.

In theaters everywhere!

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Should I See It-Caught Stealing (2025)

Hank Thompson was a high-school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. When his punk-rock neighbor asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly fi...

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ron Howard swings for the fences, unlike he has ever done before, but EDEN is a misfire that takes a frenetic, chaotic energy and turns it into monotony and tedium.

Now playing for this weekend at least, at a theater near you.

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Should I See It-Eden (2025)

Based on a true story, a group of disillusioned outsiders who abandon modern society in search of a new beginning settle on a remote, uninhabited island. Their utopian dream quickly unravels as they d...

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 23

Definitely in a jazzy state of mind …

Coltrane. Brubeck. Shorter.

Welcome to the collection.

Album covers of John Coltrane, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and Wayne Shorter

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very niche complaint - but just had that moment when you are in school, taking a course you really enjoy, and then the latest lesson is framed around a "hack" of an expert, who has made a fortune off of people selling his grocery store aisle checkout stand examples of "leadership 101."

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Seattle Film Critics @seattlecritics.bsky.social · Aug 19

SFCS is thrilled to welcome Bob Foster as a new member for 2025! Catch up with Bob's writing at Cinema Crazed:

📽️ www.cinema-crazed.com

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Seattle Film Critics @seattlecritics.bsky.social · Aug 19

SFCS is thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Lim-Zufferey as a new member for 2025! Catch up with Elizabeth's writing at Montage Review:

📽️ www.montagereview.com

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Seattle Film Critics @seattlecritics.bsky.social · Aug 19

SFCS is thrilled to welcome Konnor Beaulier as a new member for 2025! Catch up with Konnor's writing at Film & Froth (@filmfroth.com).

📽️ www.filmfroth.com

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Seattle Film Critics @seattlecritics.bsky.social · Aug 19

SFCS is thrilled to welcome Marina Coates as a new member for 2025. Catch up with Marina's writing at The SunBreak (@thesunbreak.bsky.social) and The Pop Break:

📽️ thesunbreak.com
📽️ thepopbreak.com

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Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · Aug 15

I hope someone’s mounting an Oscar campaign for Abou Sangaré, because dang. #filmsky 📽

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 16

In L.A. for the weekend and finding myself wishing I could have immersed myself in what the city has to offer when I was younger … but now, I just feel like it moves so much faster than my brain is currently wired.

Time remains undefeated I suppose.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · Aug 11

All those “Back the Blue” people are awfully quiet when a convicted felon says the police have failed and he’s going to take over and tell them what to do in our nation’s capital.

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Mike Ward @shouldiseeit.bsky.social · Aug 8

Are we in the start of a Lohanissance?

Lindsey Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite after 22 years for FREAKIER FRIDAY, featuring two sets of body swaps and a movie that feels like it easily could have been made 20-plus years ago.

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Should I See It-Freakier Friday (2025)

Mother and daughter Tess and Anna discover that lightning may indeed strike twice as they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Aug 8

Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

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