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- [New] | Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews [Animated]
- Excerpt: French writer/director Florence Miailhe’s “Butterfly” utilizes the most strikingly beautiful animation technique, hand painted images where brush strokes shimmer into ocean waves…my pick for the Oscar.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews [Animated]
- Excerpt: Five inventive films (plus a bonus short), and each one under twenty minutes.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight [Animated]
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews [Documentary]
- Excerpt: The five documentary shorts nominated for the 2026 Oscar are a reflection of today’s world and, with the exception of one outlier, the effect is the opposite of uplifting.
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews [Documentary]
- Excerpt: War, violence, protest, loss: Four of five leave the viewer emotionally depleted. The real-world stakes matter, but must misery be a prerequisite for a nomination?
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight [Documentary]
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews [Live Action]
- Excerpt: The 2026 Oscar nominated live action shorts feature two amusing modernizations of literature from previous centuries, a well worn narrative elevated by its actors, an Israeli indictment of Palestinian oppression and France’s second short in a row about an aversion to kissing.
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews [Live Action]
- Excerpt: Friendship, prejudice, period farce, pub ballads, and a dystopia that bans kissing, I break down and rank all five of the live-action nominees now playing in theaters.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight [Live Action]
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