Film
On an elemental level, Stanley Donen’s films epitomize what we think of when we think of the best of Hollywood cinema.
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The Oscar-nominated animation shorts are a dark lot this year.
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Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the “schizophrenia” of being an Oscar nominee.
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The film assembles an eclectic and impressive crew of actors, writers, directors and scholars to explore the representation of black characters and culture in (mostly) American horror cinema.
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Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism, duplicity, and, finally, abject sycophancy.
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Albert Finney was the greatest interpreter of England’s gift to the world of contemporary theater, the Kitchen Sink Drama.
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It is safe to predict that the winner in this category will be one of the entries that squares off against mortality.
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Despite the soap opera details, Everybody Knows never becomes implausible.
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Shame on you, Academy, for such feeble, uninspired, downer picks.
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Arctic avoids existential symbolism for the sake of expressing authentic emotions, most of them thanks to Mads Mikkelsen’s performance, a quiet tour de force.
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