Every year we get one or two or more biopics, increasingly relegated to streaming, that are shamelessly engineered and promoted to get acting Oscar nominations.
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Nyad (2023)
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Dream Scenario (2023)
Dream Scenario became one of the “weird movie” sensations of 2023, and it’s not really hard to see why.
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The Holdovers (2023)
It would be reductive to say that The Holdovers works because Alexander Payne once again cast Paul Giamatti, the perfect vessel of his writing in Sideways.
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Downsizing (2017)
The narrative structure of Downsizing is baffling.
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Anatomy of a Fall’s script offers a rich landscape of ideas intelligently explored.
Something that sets Gangs of London apart as a TV production is the pedigree of the directors brought in to work on it.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon is a Martin Scorsese film.
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Beau is Afraid (2023)
Ari Aster’s first two movies, Hereditary and Midsommar, didn’t set my world on fire, but are both solid bits of direction sabotaged in various degrees by uneven plots stretched thin.
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Nebraska (2013)
If you can get past the boredom, Nebraska will sneak up on you.
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The Descendants (2011)
In the seven years between Sideways and The Descendants, Alexander Payne hit the directorial equivalent of writers block.