The Gold Rush
Everything you better know about this years awards season race.
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This ranking is subjective and based on nothing but my own personal evaluation.
But it is right.
Diane Warrens nominated song ranks right at the bottom of her own rankings, too.
When a movie cant even make good on a Beyonce original song, you know things are grim.
Well, that and turning Olivia Wildes ambitious reporter into a soulless, Macarena-dancing, fire-breathing dragon.
Richard Kind as Rudy Giuliani made me literally scream though.
That it managed a Best Picture nomination for beingVROOM VROOM: The Movieis something a bit more puzzling.
Its not abadmovie, just a deeply uninteresting one, thats all.
Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, and Joan Cusack have a lot of fun with their voice work.
Theres no explaining it.
Major deductions for restrictingMichelle Pfeifferto a whole lot of glowering from turrets.
In the end the filmmaking is repetitious and flat.
But how many times is John Williams going to get applauded for writing the exact same score?
(Rise of Skywalkerwas fine, by the way!
J.J. Abrams isnt some kind of devil!)
The animation is harsh, muddled stop-motion, giving the film a grotesque quality, more admirable than re-watchable.
You cant get much more emblematic of that divide than a nominated animated short inspired by Dogme 95 principles.
Yes, its strange thatRenee Zellwegers performancewent essentially unchallenged all awards season.
This glimpse into the life of an activist and everything hes fighting for is incredibly inspirational.
Like the ghost of Christmas Future.
Which isnt to say this film is empty smiles amid war-torn conditions.
As unexpected as it sounds in describing a movie calledThe Two Popes, their interaction is incredibly fun.
The only voice in the film is provided by Issa Rae as the natural-hair vlogger.
To answer your question: The plot here is incredibly similar to Halle BerrysThe Call.
That doesnt change how exciting it was to spot a thriller among all the short-film dirges.
Its a tantalizing film, all the more so because its a short.
But the dance performed by the abducted woman and her 9-1-1 operator is intense and thrilling.
Sounds like Oscar to me!
That said, this is a good one.
Clever but also unsettling in a very real way.
His father suspects hes gone radical and has joined ISIL.
Those fears were blessedly unfounded.
But that would be way too scary for Disney+, so instead its an escape attempt!
Its sayingMartin Scorsesewasnt right, but thesolemn, respectful Oscar campaignfor Robert Downey Jr. was also ridiculous.
If only it had a music budget to speak of instead of that chintzy Carpenters cover.
Why do you keep beatingParasitefor awards?
So many delights to be found in what is really just a great long quest to let dad go.
Margot Robbie was nominated for the wrong movie.
Not that shes being recognized for it.
Rian Johnsons pitch-perfectmurder-mysteryought to have at least five more Oscar nominations.
What of those talk-of-the-town costumes?
Or the production design of that house with all its sharp edges and witty coffee mugs?
His collaborations with Greta Gerwig that elevated his game and expanded his emotional palette.
His work onThe Meyerowitz Storiesthat sharpened his takes on family and New York.
This is the best adaptation of a piece of classic literature weve had in a long time.
This isntBong Joon Hoall cleaned up and respectable.
This is the Establishment coming around to him because he made something undeniable.
