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With the 2023Academy Awardsbearing down on us, its finally time to let this years film debates boil over.
IsEverything Everywhere All at Oncethe zeitgeist movie of the year, or overstuffed multiverse nonsense?
Did Steven Spielberg deliver on his career-capping memoir?
What do we really oweBrendan Fraser?
Is Lydia Tar real?
1.That Irish dark comedy isnt that Irish.
2.The multiverse is boring, except when A24 does it.
3.Spielberg cant stop losing.
What was it going to take to get Spielberg a second Best Picture Oscar?
4.Top Gunsaved movie theaters, but its not Best Picture.
No one cares about the theatrical moviegoing experience more than Tom Cruise.
You saved Hollywoods ass,Spielberg himself admitted.
And nowTop Gun: Maverickis a Best Picture nominee.
5.Brendan Fraser is back with a fatphobic disaster.
How much must we give the actor who gave usGeorge of the JungleandDudley Do Right?
6.Andrea Riseborough is great.
Her nomination, not so much.
Riseborough was quickly cast into the role of usurper.
7.Avatar 2: a little fetishistic, a lot popular.
8.Tar is real.
All of that was true ofTar,Todd Fields long-awaited third feature.
But thenTarbecame the surprise meme queen of this years Oscars race.
9.Babylonknows something the Academy doesnt.
Its also got bodily fluids, moral depravity, and orgies and critics recoiled.
10.Its okay if youve never heard ofAll Quiet on the Western Front.
Yet its 2022 slate was woefully short on real contenders.
(Hestrying to get rid of it!)
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