Didn’t have time to see all ten Best Picture nominees before the Oscars on Sunday? We’ll save you 1,365 minutes of screentime and catch you up. The Daily Beast’s Obsessed rounded up all the reviews and performances here so you know who’s worth rooting for. |
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The three-hour biopic about the so-called father of the atomic bomb is a technical, visual, and storytelling achievement. It’s also the best film of both Nolan’s career and 2023. |
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With all of the chatter regarding the Barbie movie for the last four years, the most pressing question ended up being whether Greta Gerwig’s film could exceed the insurmountable hype surrounding it. |
By Coleman Spilde • Read More » |
Stone has never been better, playing a woman having an unapologetic sexual awakening with transfixing reckless abandon in “Poor Things,” which just won the top prize at Venice. |
By Caspar Salmon • Read More » |
A Holocaust drama like no other, The Zone of Interest is perhaps the most chillingly detached film in cinema history. |
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Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic is stranger than you’d expect, filled with ambitious filmmaking and showy performances—some of which work, all of which are ponderous. |
By Caspar Salmon • Read More » |
Martin Scorsese’s new film is worth its three-and-a-half hour running time. Leo’s never been better, and Lily Gladstone is a star. |
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This year’s Palme d’Or winner is catnip for true crime fans—or anyone who loves their dramas to be tauntingly twisty. |
By Nick Schager • Read More » |
The heavy-handed satire about the expectations placed upon Black creators is best suited for the exact white liberals it lightly mocks. |
By Kyndall Cunningham • Read More » |
‘The Holdovers’ Is Alexander Payne’s Best Movie in More Than a Decade |
The filmmaker behind “Sideways” and “Election” makes a triumphant return to form with “The Holdovers,” a melancholy, funny, and moving reunion with collaborator Paul Giamatti. |
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“Rustin” is a thrilling, defining moment for the gay civil rights activist history books too often ignore, with a Colman Domingo performance that should have Oscar calling. |
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Dominic Sessa has his first Hollywood role in “The Holdovers,” which feels like it was ripped straight out of his life. |
By Fletcher Peters • Read More » |
Have you seen what these people looked like in real life? |
By Eric Olson • Read More » |
Jeffrey Wright delivers career-best work in “American Fiction” at the Toronto International Film Festival, a razor-sharp satire of race and literature that everyone should see. |
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Now that Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic is on Netflix, could a contingent of passionate detractors derail the film’s—and Cooper’s—Oscar hopes? |
By Kevin Fallon • Read More » |
If you have a casual three-and-a-half hours on your hands this weekend (who among us?), go watch Lily Gladstone do some of the best acting of the year in Martin Scorsese’s latest. |
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With “Poor Things” continuing its festival run in New York, the buzz that this is a gonzo, sexual, twisted masterpiece is only getting louder. |
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When Annette Bening and Jodie Foster scored major Oscar nods for “Nyad” over a slew of acting favorites, people had questions, such as: What is “Nyad” and is it any good? |
By Fletcher Peters • Read More » |
With stellar performances in two of the year’s best and buzziest films—“Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest”—Sandra Hüller is already being dubbed “Actress of the Year.” |
By Chris Feil • Read More » |
Leonard Bernstein had many male lovers in his lifetime—and Bradley Cooper’s take on the composer makes sure we know it. |
By Barry Levitt • Read More » |
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