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Critic Reviews
Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The awards show long billed as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year” felt more like a humble comeback than a cork-popping spectacle. ... The more streamlined show, and the cool, disciplined delivery of Carmichael, were also indicators that the formerly loose and boozy event was headed in a new direction.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
None of Gervais’s jokes were as cutting as, say, when Sacha Baron-Cohen likened Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to the protagonist of “Jojo Rabbit” (“a naïve, misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends”). ... The microclimate in the room for the night was breezy with patches of sincerity. ... But the room truly came together for the Cecil B. DeMille award speech from Tom Hanks.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
It was two shows in one. For the most part, the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards on NBC was a better-than-average awards show, with surprise winners, humorous touches and some heartfelt speeches. But then there was that other show, the one with Ricky Gervais as the supposed host of the festivities. ... [Gervais] came off like the guy sitting at the back of the auditorium who’s had one too many, and keeps yelling out unfunny, sarcastic remarks.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
[The Golden Globes] felt more grown-up than usual in its 2020 outing. ... Its reputation, perhaps, was always a bit inflated on the basis of a few instances of ragged speeches and stars caught in the bathroom, but the ceremony had, historically, felt like a respite from the awards season’s particular gravity. Inasmuch as a show more professionally produced than ever before can be said to have been a victim, the Globes may be a victim of its own success.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
Ricky Gervais was so consumed with reminding us this was his fifth and final time hosting the Globes, so intent on congratulating himself for being edgy and not caring the least about anything, so obsessed with taboo, bleep-inducing zingers, he forgot something. He forgot to be funny. ... Not that the broadcast was lacking in memorable moments. ... These Golden Globes should be remembered for a more lasting legacy: singling out truly outstanding work in nearly every category.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
Despite the preshow line about Gervais being a “controversial,” unpredictable host — hyped unpredictability is the most predictable thing about the Golden Globes — what he did was totally expected. ... Fortunately, there were other moments in the evening that genuinely were surprising and made hanging in for the duration of the three-hour broadcast less of a slog than it was in the beginning.
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IndieWireJan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
Carmichael proved himself a distinct, snappy, and suave host. (Those unremarked upon costume changes were an absolute highlight.) But with awards shows in general facing steep viewership declines, the Globes’ return failed to provide any unique reason this particular show is worth saving.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
It didn’t take long for the Globes to fall prey to the same types of snafus and stumbles we’ve all experienced in the Video Chat Era. ... The telecast was also filled with fantastically awkward and therefore entertaining reaction shots. ... We also had some pretty cool video moments. ... As for the actual awards: There were no great shocks, though it was a definite upset when Andra Day won (deservedly so) for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” and a bit of a surprise, at least to Jodie Foster, when she won best supporting actress for “The Mauritanian.”
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
There weren't many barbs to [Gervais'] supposedly sharp humor, merely a few weak jabs at Apple and political celebrities. More than anything else, it was dull. ... [Tom Hanks'] speech made the pursuit of acting and filmmaking feel like a noble one, captivating the audience in the room and at home. ... Michelle Williams, Jared Harris, Patricia Arquette and even Russell Crowe – in a statement all the way from Australia – got political and moving in their speeches, without a hint of exploitation or grandstanding.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
Minus some memorable victory speeches—particularly Michelle Williams (winning for Fosse/Verdon) emphasizing the importance of women’s right to choose; and whatever sort of Joker-esque barn-burning Phoenix did—the 2020 broadcast of the Golden Globes felt like a staid one.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
The most memorable awards of the evening, and most entertaining interludes, involved the HFPA’s heritage prizes. ... Actor Tom Hanks accepted the DeMille Award with a speech that was moving, if rambling. ... As for the awards, most seemed to barely move the excitement needle for viewers at home as the show nudged past 11 o’clock.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
The last thing anyone needed was for the smirking master of ceremonies to reprimand them for having hope, or taunt the room for trying to use their influence to change things for the better. Almost immediately, however, it became clear Gervais wasn’t the funniest guy in the room at the 77th Golden Globes — and he wasn’t running the show, either. ... Politics aside, the telecast’s strongest comedic moment erupted when Gervais was off stage.
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Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The best awards-show opening monologue I have ever heard. ... The crowd laughed sparingly and uncomfortably. I’m not even sure that Carmichael was trying to make them laugh so much as to make them think, and to think things through himself. ... For now, at least, the Golden Globes are back, too big to fail, but perhaps not too big to fail upward.
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Mar 2, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Fey and Poehler, on different coasts but framed as if on the same stage, delivered their one-liners with their usual warmth, even if the goofs on the likes of Big Red Carpet (like Big Pharma) and “The Prom” were forgettable. ... During Fey and Poehler’s opening bit, the producers flashed to the Zoom feeds of the subjects of many of their jokes — we saw Nicole Kidman having to laugh at a joke about her wig and coats in “The Undoing,” for example, a few seconds after the punchline due to a lag. It was just clunky, lacking the good-spiritedness of seeing famous people laughing at themselves from the audience.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
What was never in question was the wisdom of having Fey and Poehler back as hosts. ... As a party, it was a Zoom call. ... Attempts to make nominees seem as if they were in a shared space, a party space, chatting away with one another as the telecast went to commercial breaks, fell flat.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
A lot of the Golden Globes was indeed messy this year, but not necessarily the good kind of messy. ... The electricity usually generated between the pair [Fey and Poehler] and their audience when everyone’s in the same ballroom was notably absent, but nothing about their performance was cringey or embarrassing, which is the bar we have now set for entirely or semi-virtual award shows.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Like a lot of our mediated experiences over the last year, the night begged to be rated on a curve. It was more often fun in a “Good for them for giving it a shot” way. Even with living-room champagne, teleconferencing is still teleconferencing. ... The association acknowledged the racial issue in a perfunctory, we-have-work-to-do statement from the stage. It addressed the self-dealing charges not at all. ... This disjointed version of a usually carefree production felt like it was ailing.
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