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Doesn't look like it in my area. My two local Regals have one showing each on the 24th super early in the day, and then are just gone completely once Christmas Day hits, with Encanto being the oldest film of the bunch in those locations.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again; what was the point of a Kingsman prequel? Golden Circle already made people lose a lot of goodwill to the franchise, so you were going to drop no matter what. Plus Vaughn was developing this movie during the Disney buyout process, so the franchise was on even shakier ground than it was when GC first came out. Why not just make one more movie with Egerton and Firth, tie up whatever loose ends or plot threads, and give a good closure for poor saps like me who like Golden Circle? Because now we aren't getting that. And if you want to do a prequel, just wait a while and have it be some splashy Hulu Original Movie, problem solved.

I'm very mad that I've been trying to make "Papa Feige" a thing for the past two years, and yet @RRA steals my thunder with his less enticing "King Kevin". 😔

That's what they get for not giving the people Sexy Eggsy.

Serious question here, from people who understand COVID better than I do, why exactly is Omicron causing all these shutdowns and restrictions and lockdowns? I know this happened with Delta to an extent, but here in the States they're closing down Broadway shows and sports and concerts and I'm just confused when folks are also saying it's a less deadly variant compared to Delta.

Scream Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-23 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 200 6254 3.20% Total Seats Sold Today: 19 I messed up and forgot to post yesterday, though I did track that day and got about 18 sales. So don't worry about me forgetting. Comps are coming tomorrow, but they won't really mean much of anything this far off. *shrug*

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting (Final Count) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 102 3063 16804 18.23% Total Seats Sold Today: 441 Total Seats Sold WITHOUT EARLY ACCESS: 1,655 Comp (WITHOUT Early Access) 3.838x of Cruella Thu+Fri T-1 (29.58M) 9.786x of Jungle Cruise T-1 (26.42M) 9.913x of Encanto T-1 (14.87M) Ehh, that Encanto number honestly seems about right. The vaccine efficacy is about to kick in for a lot of kids by now, so it makes sense this could not be as affected by Omicron.

The Matrix: Resurrections Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 (Final Count) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 82 2,504 14430 17.35% Total Seats Sold Today: 343 Comp 0.646x of Godzilla vs. Kong (6.27M) 2.289x of The Suicide Squad T-1 (9.38M) 1.423x of Dune T-1 (7.25M) Y'all better be right that Philly's just a fluke.

The King's Man Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 41 436 6357 6.86% Total Seats Sold Today: 167 Comp 0.669x of Snake Eyes (936K) 0.214x of The Suicide Squad (879K) 0.150x of No Time to Die (944K) 0.187x of Dune (951K) Well everything points to the 900K range, so I guess that's where I'm going too.

I'm...honestly contemplating it, only because the Halsey wolf is making my "furry trash" levels go crazy. 😔

And now, I can finally close this. Again, I'm sorry this went on longer than expected, but I've been having issues at work and I didn't expect them to be as big of an issue as they would. Makes it hard to focus on these types of countdowns. Even so, I hope you guys loved what I wrote and I hope I got some of you to see an all-time master's finest works. Super-duper extra huge thanks to @Tower @lilmac @baumer @Joel M @Ronin46 @A Star is Orm @BestPicturePlutoNash @TheDude391 @aabattery @Fancyarcher @TalismanRing @WrathOfHan @filmlover @cannastop @Rorschach @Jake Gittes @von Kenni @Jamiem @Blankments @4815162342 @MOVIEGUY @DAR @lorddemaxus @titanic2187 and @The Panda Literally, without your contributions, this countdown would not happen, so I have my full gratitude. And a super-duper extra huge thank you to Martin Scorsese, for continuing to do what you do best, despite all the odds stacked against you in the ensuing decades. You've given us joy and wonder through your films and we can only hope Killers of the Flower Moon will continue your hit streak. And lastly, it's time to reveal what next year's countdown, December 2022, will be all about. And this time, it's actually going to be a request that was asked all the way back in 2020. So drumroll please... The Coen Brothers Countdown That's right folks. The duo who have given us the likes of Raising Arizona, No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and more will get their time in the sun next year. Shout outs to the lovely and beautiful @Jake Gittes for requesting this topic, and I hope you'll like it in about 12 months. And once again, everybody who voted this year, please try and catch up and support my annual tradition. I love doing this stuff every year and I want to continue further. Thank you for taking the time to read, like, and discuss the list, have a wonderful holiday, and remember that Timothee loves you!

#1 Taxi Driver (1990) 195 pts, 24 lists "Are you talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here." #1 placements: 5 #2 placements: 6 #3 placements: 3 Top 5 placements: 17 Top 10 placements: 6 Box Office: $28.4 million Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Metacritic: 94 Awards: Palme D'Or at Cannes Film Festival, 4 Academy Award nominations, 1 Blue Ribbon Award, 3 BAFTAs and 4 nominations, 2 Golden Globe Award nominations, 1 Grammy Award nomination, 3 National Society of Film Critics Awards and 3 Runner-Ups Roger Ebert’s Review: "This utter aloneness is at the center of "Taxi Driver," one of the best and most powerful of all films, and perhaps it is why so many people connect with it even though Travis Bickle would seem to be the most alienating of movie heroes. We have all felt as alone as Travis. Most of us are better at dealing with it." BOT User Review: "FWIW the best performance of all time is in this movie..." - @CoolioD1 Its Legacy: Scorsese's first major hit. Made Robert De Niro a movie star. Earned controversy for violence and Jodie Foster's casting. Jodie Foster's major breakthrough. Inspired John Hinckley Jr. (unfortunately). Almost caused Martin Scorsese to quit moviemaking entirely. #47 on AFI's Top 100, #52 on 2007 edition. Joined the National Film Registry in 1994. 19th on BBC's Top 100 American Movies. Kickstarted Paul Schrader's career. "You talkin' to me?" was parodied to death, including by De Niro in Rocky and Bullwinkle. Bernard Herrmann's final score. 31st best film ever by Sight & Sound's 2012 critic's list, #5 on director's list. Gave Albert Brooks a paycheck. Commentary: The battle between this and Goodfellas for #1 was insane. Every time a new list came in, the two would flip-flop from one another. And yet, just by one single point, Taxi Driver won it all. Frankly, one list could have changed everything when it came to these rankings. But that’s not a slight against Taxi Driver. It got to #1 for a good reason, and a good chunk of it comes from Robert De Niro’s performance as Travis Bickle. I know I’ve been saying “Robert De Niro’s career best” a lot in this countdown (God forbid he be such a good actor), but I really mean this here. Depicting a Vietnam veteran struggling to keep it all together, the film details a guy stuck on the edge. Unable to truly feel compassion and a connection with others, as he drives through New York in the dead of night. The deterioration of his mental state is fascinating, helped further by the world around him. This New York concocted by Martin is surreal, strange, and full of odd characters and destinations, as Martin creates a film that feels almost like a wild and crazy dream, with strange, yet still understandable logic to it. This only leads to a memorable storyline that tows the line between dream and reality, with an ending that people still discuss and analyze to this day. If anything, the film’s final message, promoting mental illnesses while the world does nothing to truly fix it, is just as big, if not a bigger issue today. This has always been a constant in Scorsese’s filmography, his films still focusing on always relevant issues. And Taxi Driver, simply put, does it the best. Again, like Goodfellas, I can’t really add anything else that everybody and their grandma has already said about the movie. So I think it’s fair to say that despite our own personal preferences, I think Taxi Driver is a very solid #1 that truly encapsulates what Martin has done since 1967.

#2 Goodfellas (1990) 194 pts, 24 lists "As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster." #1 placements: 7 #2 placements: 6 #3 placements: 2 Top 5 placements: 18 Top 10 placements: 2 Box Office: $47.1 million Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Metacritic: 90 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 6 nominations, 5 Golden Globe nominations, 4 BAFTAs and 2 nominations, Silver Lion for Best Director, Audience Award, and Bastone Bianco Award at Venice Film Festival, 1 National Board of Review Award Roger Ebert’s Review: "What Scorsese does above all else is share his enthusiasm for the material. The film has the headlong momentum of a storyteller who knows he has a good one to share." BOT User Review: "The best movie of the '90s after Pulp Fiction." - @The Stingray Its Legacy: The arguable high point of Scorsese's career. The most famous film of his 1990s tenure. Redefined the mob/gangster movie. Hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Joined the National Film Registry in 2000. Influenced The Sopranos. Ranked #94 on AFI's Top 100 Films, #92 in the 2007 edition. #6 on Empire Magazine's Top 500 Films of All Time. Saw a scrapped television series in development. Namedropped in Bee Movie. Gave Ray Liotta a paycheck. Commentary: The ultimate mob movie. Essentially the spiritual successor to Coppola’s Godfather duology (sorry Part III), Goodfellas is an exhilarating, unfiltered look into the life of Henry Hill and his associates in a film that is full of twists, turns, and surprises. The 2.5 hours just fly by as we follow the immense rise of the mob, only for a tough, wild descent into paranoia. Detailing the changing times from 1955 to 1980 with violence, comedy, and a whole lot of style, it’s a film that feels jam-packed with goodies, with nothing else that needed to be added or removed. Honestly, I don’t know what else to say about this movie. You’ve all seen it and you already know it’s good. I can’t bring anything else that every other critic (and also David Chase) has said about the film. I guess the only big surprise is that despite many citing this as Scorsese’s best, it’s only at #2. You probably know what #1 is by now, and I think, even if you prefer the other film, that this is a worthy silver medal.

#3 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 160 pts, 21 lists "As a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of the limo, wearing a $2000 suit and a $40,000 gold fuckin' watch." #1 placements: 2 #2 placements: 4 #3 placements: 3 Top 5 placements: 15 Top 10 placements: 3 Box Office: $392 million Rotten Tomatoes: 79% Metacritic: 75 Awards: Five Academy Award nominations, 4 BAFTA nominations, 1 Empire Award and 1 nomination, 1 Golden Globe Awards and 1 nomination, 1 Grammy Award nomination, 2 MTV Movie Awards and 6 nominations, 2 National Board of Review Awards Critic Review: "A very fast three hours, Wolf is a fascinating, revolting, outlandish, uproarious, exhilarating and exhausting master work on immorality." - Betsey Sharkey, Los Angeles Times BOT User Review: "This is not just the best film of the year, it is unquestionably one of the best films I've ever seen. Every scene, every shot, every performance is about as good as it gets. Standing out of course are DiCaprio and Hill. Hill transforms himself in this film but DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career." - @baumer Its Legacy: Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film. The Scorsese film the youths can get behind. Resurfaced the story of Jordan Belfort. Hit with controversy and backlash one after the other. Made Margot Robbie a superstar. Scorsese's first digital film. First film distributed entirely digitally. Featured the most "fucks" in a narrative movie until 2014's Swearnet: The Movie. Gave Kyle Chandler a paycheck. Commentary: It’s funny to think this now, but way back in Christmas 2013, 8 years ago (Man, time really has flown), The Wolf of Wall Street wasn’t warmly regarded. Many audiences were repulsed by this three-hour debauchery on display. The film was way too sexy, way too self-indulgent, way too vulgar, way too extreme, and seemingly glorified the behaviors and actions and lifestyle of Jordan Belfort. That Belfort’s fraudulent actions, lust for women, and obsession with cocaine were seen as epic and cool and exciting. And yeah, the insanity found within this long as sin movie was not the wholesome fun a lot of unsuspecting folks wanted for Christmas. Of course, the narrative changed very fast. The people who knew what they were getting into loved it. Really loved it. And almost overnight, Wolf of Wall Street went from a polarizing, pearl-clutching release to being hailed as one of Scorsese’s absolute bests, in a decade that was full of hits for the guy. It continued to play in packed auditoriums into the new year, propelling itself as Martin’s biggest movie ever made. It’s by far the craziest, most intense thrill ride from the NYC director, which is saying quite a bit. Perfectly capturing the real life Jordan Belfort and his drug-filled experiences making it to the top of the food chain, the film is visceral, horrifying, unnerving, bizarre, untamed, and fascinating all at once, with a career-best DiCaprio and an epic storyline that is both reminiscent of the likes of Casino, yet also unlike anything else. Its raw, primal energy is one so chaotic and wild that it’s insane to think it was done by a 71-year-old man. Whether or not that’s a credit towards Scorsese’s vivid imagination and wild spirit or an indictment against the current crop of directors, you decide. However, there’s more than just flash here. What’s so brilliant is that despite the depictions that many feel endorse Belfort’s sexist, drug-fueled behavior, it’s also a slam against this very lifestyle in the first place. Belfort still loses so much humanity and dignity in this destructive lifestyle, becoming more and more of an inhuman beast due to this capitalist mindset. It’s both a cathartic feeling (remember, capitalism will kill us faster than the virus will) and also a depressing look into a reality we’re still in. In the era of crypto bros, meme stocks, and Elon Musk-types, the story of Belfort is more relevant than ever, and it makes the film all the more fascinating and all the more horrifying. Like Fight Club before it, Wolf of Wall Street is one of those films that a good chunk of viewers take the wrong way. But for those who get Scorsese’s true intention as an auteur, it serves as an incredible watershed moment in the man’s career and one folks will watch for years to come.

Apologies once again for getting this out so late, but now I'm finally getting out the top three. Thank you all for your patience!

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Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 93 2622 15871 16.52% Total Seats Sold Today: 221 Total Seats WITHOUT EARLY ACCESS: 1,214 Comp (WITHOUT Early Access) 2.240x of Cruella Thu+Fri T-2 (17.26M) 5.101x of Jungle Cruise T-2 (13.77M) 5.233x of Encanto T-2 (7.85M)

The Matrix: Resurrections Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 77 2,161 13638 15.85% Total Shows Added Today: 3 Total Seats Added Today: 240 Total Seats Sold Today: 204 Comp 0.743x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-2 (7.21M) 2.406x of The Suicide Squad T-2 (9.87M) 1.423x of Dune T-2 (7.26M) I dunno guys, I still don't think 10M+ is happening