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Still a little backlogged on reviews, MHT tallied movie #100 about a week ago which continues to match 2017’s pace despite all the Movie Pass hiccups and other things that managed to get in the way of sitting in a dark theater for about 2 hours. While Sorry to Bother You remains in the top spot, 9 movies led by Juliet, Naked, jumped into the top 20 for the year. With almost half of the top 20 being seen in the last 2 months, it’s safe to say summer closed out with a bang in 2018. Here’s the rest of 2018’s grades if you haven’t been keeping up:  

Now that you’re up to speed, here’s the last 25 movies of the first 100 movies of 2018, graded:Read More →

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Currently, the MHT Top of 2018 list is 92 films deep and should see at least 50 movies added to it before we turn the page to 2019. (Which usually happens in mid-January because (a) January movies typically suck and (b) some “2018” films don’t get a wide release until January.) As typical, the Labor Day weekend is one of the weakest release weeks of the year with the widest release belonging to something called Kin about a kid who finds a space gun. Considering last year the widest release was Tulip Fever ($1.4 million opening on roughly 700 screens) and 2016 featured The Light Between Oceans, the only question really is where the heck is Alicia Vikander? (Note: Her next film, The Earthquake Bird, isn’t expected until 2019.) Since we’ve hit a lull and the only movie left for me to review of films I’ve seen is Black Panther and I want to see it again before I review it, here’s the 5 movies from each month MHT is looking forward to seeing:Read More →

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At the halfway point of the 2018 movie season, it’s a good time to check in and see which movies were on the top of their game this year. It’s unlikely we’ll be talking about any of them come Award season but there was plenty of cinematic success to recognize. Here’s the best films and performances according to Movie Hot Take for the first half of 2018 that will probably not even be thought of come Awards season:Read More →

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We’re roughly 36 hours away from knowing who the Best Picture winner is and if they’ll screw up the announcement this time. For the first time in 3 years of predicting, MHT didn’t nail all of the Best Picture nominations (only 7 of 9). Could that mean the rest of the predictions will be off? Here’s who should and will win this year’s Oscars:Read More →

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Updated January 14th, 2019

  1. Sorry To Bother You
  2. A Quiet Place
  3. Hereditary
  4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  5. Juliet, Naked
  6. Avengers: Infinity War
  7. Isle of Dogs
  8. Love, Simon
  9. BlacKkKlansman
  10. The Favorite
  11. Blindspotting
  12. Mary Queen of Scots
  13. Bohemian Rhapsody
  14. Black Panther
  15. Aquaman
  16. Thoroughbreds
  17. Eighth Grade
  18. Creed II
  19. Ralph Breaks the Internet
  20. Crazy Rich Asians
  21. Pick of the Litter
  22. Vice
  23. Green Book
  24. Mid90s
  25. Three Identical Strangers
  26. The Endless
  27. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  28. Searching
  29. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  30. First Reformed
  31. A Star Is Born
  32. What They Had
  33. The Hate U Give
  34. The Mule
  35. Beautiful Boy
  36. A Simple Favor
  37. The House With A Clock In Its Walls
  38. Christopher Robin
  39. Tully
  40. First Man
  41. Colette
  42. Monsters and Men
  43. Destination Wedding
  44. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
  45. Game Night
  46. Ocean’s 8
  47. Uncle Drew
  48. Blockers
  49. Annihilation
  50. Whitney
  51. Incredibles 2
  52. A Wrinkle In Time
  53. Deadpool 2
  54. American Animals
  55. Papillon
  56. Unfriended: Dark Web
  57. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  58. Ready Player One
  59. Adrift
  60. Pope Francis – A Man of His Word
  61. Widows
  62. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
  63. Upgrade
  64. Second Act
  65. Overboard
  66. Tag
  67. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  68. Rampage
  69. Midnight Sun
  70. The Death of Stalin
  71. Every Day
  72. Beirut
  73. Ant-Man and the Wasp
  74. I Feel Pretty
  75. The Happytime Murders
  76. Venom
  77. Bad Times at the El Royale
  78. Fahrenheit 11/9
  79. Alpha
  80. Halloween
  81. The Meg
  82. Tomb Raider
  83. Peter Rabbit
  84. Pacific Rim Uprising
  85. Chappaquiddick
  86. Red Sparrow
  87. The Miracle Season
  88. Assassination Nation
  89. Paul, Apostle of Christ
  90. The Commuter
  91. Gringo
  92. Skyscraper
  93. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
  94. Hotel Artemis
  95. White Boy Rick
  96. Life of the Party
  97. Bad Samaritan
  98. Traffik
  99. Blumhouse’s Truth Or Dare
  100. Death Wish
  101. Kin
  102. The 15:17 to Paris
  103. The First Purge
  104. Mile 22
  105. Superfly
  106. Tyler Perry’s Acrimony
  107. Peppermint
  108. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
  109. Book Club
  110. Early Man
  111. The Predator
  112. Breaking In
  113. The Strangers: Prey At Night
  114. Fifty Shades Freed
  115. Den of Thieves
  116. Super Troopers 2
  117. Proud Mary
  118. Holmes & Watson
  119. The Nun
  120. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
  121. How It Ends
  122. Action Point
  123. Winchester
  124. Samson
  125. Gotti
  126. Unsane
  127. Sherlock Gnomes
  128. Show Dogs
  129. Slender Man

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At the halfway point of the 2017 movie season, it’s a good time to check in and see which movies were on the top of their game this year. It’s unlikely we’ll be talking about any of them come Award season but there was plenty of cinematic success to recognize. Here’s the best films and performances according to Movie Hot Take for the first half of 2017:Read More →

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The June box office will likely cash in on Wonder Woman, Transformers: The Last Knight and Despicable Me 3 but it is Baby Driver that has MHT excited. There’s a total of 32 movies due to come out in some capacity in June and here are the trailers for all of them as well as what MHT is most (and least) excited for:Read More →

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This week, the trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi was dropped on us. The official trailer on the Star Wars YouTube page has already surpassed 29 million views so there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen it unless you’re under a rock (or my brother who still doesn’t get Star Wars). So, rather than just post the trailer and hope to piggyback a few clicks, I thought it would be more interesting to go back and watch all (okay, not all because the films have had multiple trailers) of the trailers from the first 7 movies along with the new one and rank them. Here’s how the trailers rank from worst (The Phantom Menace) to first (Now, you have to read further because I’m not just giving the whole list away!):Read More →

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On Sunday, the Oscar winners will be announced. In January, we took a stab at predicting the Oscar nominees and the results were good including predicting 100% of the Best Picture nominees for the second straight year! Last year, we also predicted the winners and nailed 15 of 24 which isn’t terrible, either. Here are this year’s nominees, who will win and who should win:

Best Picture (Predicted 9/9 Nominees)

  • Arrival
  • Fences
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • Hell or High Water
  • Hidden Figures
  • La La Land
  • Lion
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Moonlight

Who Will Win?

La La LandRead More →