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Popular culture is fractured today more than it has ever been. Keeping up with the deluge of good content out there is a full-time job – or maybe that’s just my excuse for not getting around to watching Fleabag yet. Regardless, this profusion of good art makes it so year-end best-of lists are even less […]

It’s time once again for our annual Critics’ Pick Award nominations! Below is a list of the art and artists that stood out to us in 2019 television.   Who Qualifies? Any show that released new episodes on TV or online between January 1st and December 31st was considered for nomination. We tried to be […]

It’s time once again for our annual Critics’ Pick Award nominations! Below is a list of the art and artists that stood out to us in 2019 movies.   Who Qualifies? Any new movie released between January 1st and December 31st was considered for nomination.   Who Picks the Winners? Our Editors and Staff Writers […]

It’s time once again for our annual Critics’ Pick Award nominations! Below is a list of the art and artists that stood out to us in 2019 in Toronto theatre.   Who Qualifies? Any production one of our Toronto writers saw between January 1st and December 31st was considered for nomination, unless it was a […]

Welcome to home base for our 2019 Awards Season!   The Full Details…   The Nominees The 2019 Film Award Nominees The 2019 TV Award Nominees The 2019 Theatre Award Nominees   The Nominee Interview Series Every year between the Nomination Announcements and the Winners Announcement, we interview as many of the nominated artists as […]

 

There was so much incredible TV this decade. An insane amount, really. This was also the decade that changed the medium so drastically that, for both better and worse, it’s almost unrecognizable. My initial list for this post was over 80 shows. I’ve cut it down to 30 favourites with just a little bit of […]

 

These aren’t the best movies of the decade. I don’t know what those are. And neither do you. The best we can do is mention what we loved most and stop trying to claim that any piece of art can be the “best”. It’s been a long 10 years. Here are the movies that helped […]

I wasn’t going to do this. I’m wary of “best of” lists at the best of times, the decade doesn’t really end until next year, and I couldn’t help but be hyper-aware of what I was leaving off the list because time and conflict and sunlight have cast pretty big shadows over much of the […]