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Critic Reviews
IndieWireJan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
[Seth Meyers] delivered a damn fine and exceptionally funny performance under raw, delicate conditions, but this was Oprah’s Golden Globes, and no one was going to take it away from her and the women she championed. ... The women were magnificent Sunday night, and at least one man was phenomenal; let them set the tone for the future of Oprah’s vision.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Meyers did a good job, setting a high bar for hosting in a time of tricky comedy. He freely named names, throwing out early mentions of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey. The laughter could be nervous, but Meyers was borderline whimsical in his fury. ... Everyone got their minute at the 2018 Golden Globes. And even the imperfections left me blissful.
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Jan 13, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The 2023 Golden Globes were delightful. The atmosphere was fizzy and fun, the jokes non-hacky, the winners well chosen, and the speeches alternately witty and moving, without edging into dopey or preening. Everyone there seemed to be having a good time, but not at the expense of the viewers at home.
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Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
There was a bigger topic to tackle, and so Carmichael did just that—admirably not letting the HFPA off the hook by doing some image rehab on their behalf, while also mordantly (and amusingly) acknowledging the morally compromising matter of money. ... There was plenty of fodder for us awards pundits to chew over, involving a host of exciting wins for long deserving actors like Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh.
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Jan 11, 2023
Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The producers seemed to believe that if you’re going to bother hosting an awards show, you may as well let it breathe, lean into the elements of surprise that live TV offers, and enable the honorees to enjoy themselves while still mocking the frivolity of the whole exercise. This year’s Globes got that part right.
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Jan 9, 2018
Season 75 Review:
An evening that balanced the completely expected with a few moments that were refreshingly unpredictable, starting with the symbolic sartorial blackout for the Globes red carpet and ending with Natalie Portman’s sucker punch to the nads in the wake of Winfrey’s speech.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
It was Winfrey’s speech, delivered after she became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Globes equivalent of a lifetime-achievement honor, that instantly established itself as the most memorable moment of the night. ... The late-night host struck the right tone more often than not, and to those who think he didn’t, I ask you to imagine what this night would have been like with Ricky Gervais holding a microphone in his hand.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
In a cultural moment as fraught as this one, an awards show can't be everything to everyone. But as a host, Meyers did his best to make it work, with some help from the winners. His performance wasn't perfect, but it set a high bar for the rest of awards season, and repeat Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Meyers delivered a carefully crafted monologue that took well-phrased shots at Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Woody Allen, while also making room for Poehler, talking from her seat, to deliver the biggest laughs of the segment with a couple of raucous, mansplaining jabs. ...Sure, some of the chatter was a little bit tedious because of sheer repetition, but it was a higher class of tedium — nobler and more heartfelt, and effective in its fervor and sincerity. Later in the evening, Oprah Winfrey turned her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award into a stirring talk about race and class and history. It was a world-class speech.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Oprah Winfrey brought the house down with a speech calling for the day when no woman would have to say “Me too.” ... Though many award recipients wanted to show solidarity, not all were as comfortable or animated in speaking, and at times the stream of “Up with Women” sentiments were as monochromatic as all those black dresses. Though seemingly well intended, it felt more perfunctory than a sign of some bigger shift. And then there were the poor, uncomfortable men who didn’t know what to do in this new world of truth-speak. ... During the ceremony, Meyers half entertained, half challenged the audience to take a good hard look at their own industry.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Irony is Mr. Meyers’s thing, and he was deftly funny pointing it out. ... And Oprah Winfrey, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award, took the audience to church with a fervent, personal speech dedicated to abused women inside and outside Hollywood. ... For much of the night, though, it was a surprisingly ordinary Golden Globes. It wasn’t quite a celebration; it wasn’t entirely a protest.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
After a long buildup to the awards, and a successful opening monologue, the awards just kind of... kept going, without much fanfare or pizzazz. It seemed as if the energy of the preamble couldn’t quite match with what is a pretty boring format of handing out awards and listing nominees. ... It turns out, the #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #WhyWeWearBlack soundbites on the carpet and onstage were just the canapés preparing the audience for the main course: Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award and delivering a rousing speech that seemed to reach every remaining doubt and fear, boiling down to nothing less than a mission statement for the future.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
The Globes made a valiant (if not always successful) effort to deliver some awards show glamour. ... If you squinted a bit, Fey and Poehler almost-not-really looked like they were on stage together, though that split-screen technology didn't help much with their toothless monologue.
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