Has a Best Picture race ever felt like
such a done deal? Even in years where there s been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesn t seem to be the case this year, where
Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say,
Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!
Chloé Zhao s resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venice s Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International Film Festival s People s Choice Award, the latter heralding it as one to watch come awards season. Then
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After the long, strange trip of the past film year, could it be that Oscar voters might have gotten it right this time? The nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards are a high-quality roundup of films and performances that astutely reflect a lot of what we cared about more than movies in 2020. These aren’t frivolous times, and these aren’t frivolous films. Even the comedy about a clueless Kazakh reporter trying to pawn off his offspring on an oblivious Mike Pence showed heart and purpose.
Ultimately,
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm made an impact because, like most of us, the film staked real value in family, health, social justice, and civil rights. As did
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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: “Nina Wu” Is a Darkly Surrealist Character Study Based on True Events What to see and skip that s streaming or in theaters. (Film Movment) Nina Wu is a struggling actress living in Taipei. When her agent nabs her an audition for a plum role in a 70s espionage thriller, she hesitates after learning it requires full-frontal nudity, though ultimately goes through with it. She earns the part, but discovers that the on-set environment is dangerous and brutal the director is abusive in his quest to elicit Nina s best performance, and the (mostly male) crew members do nothing to intervene. As Nina begins to unravel, repressed memories leak through the cracks, and she questions how she actually got the role in the first place. The answer is horrific, almost as horrific as the