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The 2021 Best Picture Oscar Nominees Ranked For 2021’s Oscar edition, the Academy selected eight stand-out films released over the past year, with Mank leading the way atop 10 nominations. Nomadland and Promising Young Woman also had their helmers nominated for Best Director, the first time more than one woman has been recognized in the category for a single year.
Feb 13, 2022 · Granted, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 Best Picture winner had probably earned a spot on this list long before wrapping production given the names attached and subject matter. Both versions of the musical examine class inequality and ethnic tensions in America through cross-cultural turf wars and an unlikely love affair doomed from its very conception.
- The Trial of The Chicago 7
- The Father
- Promising Young Woman
- Sound of Metal
- Judas and The Black Messiah
- Mank
- Minari
- Nomadland
Aaron Sorkin has penned some truly fantastic screenplays, but their screen translations were typically handled by masterful directors like David Fincher, Rob Reiner, or Danny Boyle. Left to his own devices as writer and director, he's saddled with an overwritten script and a flat visual style that yields a solid but middling piece of awards-season ...
Anthony Hopkins gives one of his greatest performances ever as a proud man (also named Anthony) striving to push through and deny his rapidly-enchroaching dementia. In a year filled to the brim with stage-to-screen transfers, director Florian Zeller finds a remarkably cinematic approach to what could be a fairly stagey adaptation of his own play, p...
Emerald Fennell's directorial debut is a candy-colored black comedy centering on the cunning Cassie, a "promising young woman" seeking to avenge the rape of her best friend by faking drunkenness at clubs, going home with men attempting to take advantage of her, and dealing with them as she sees fit. The screenplay is a minefield of hot-button issue...
One of the best surprises in this year's nominee slate is Darius Marder's captivating Sound of Metal, the achingly melancholy tale of Ruben, a hard rock drummer experiencing the loss of his hearing. Anchored by Riz Ahmed in one of the best performances of the year and buouyed by an experimental and Oscar-worthy sound design that gives the viewer th...
Shaka King's sweeping film has dominated awards season most with wins for Daniel Kaluuya's galvanizing performance as Fred Hampton, but its plot begins with William O'Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield), a Black man arrested for stealing a car and offered a plea deal if he infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers and gathers intelligen...
Those expecting Mank to be a nostalgic love letter to Old Hollywood or a straightforward behind the scenes look at the making of Citizen Kane are sure to be disappointed. But then again, when has David Fincher ever met audience expectations head on? It’s true his best film since The Social Network is painstakingly authentic, from its mono soundtrac...
Lee Isaac Chung's semi-autobiographical film about growing up as a South Korean immigrant in Arkansas is not only one of the year's most eminently-lovable, tender films, but also one of the most American. Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-jung have received Oscar nominations for their performances in Minarias the patriarch striving to make his family proud ...
There were a lot of good movies this year, but only one as beautiful, as elemental, as overwhelming as Nomadland, Chloe Zhao's portrait of nomadic outsiders that transcends mere cinema and crosses over into the sublime. Publicized as a brief respite between her previous film The Rider and Marvel’s upcoming The Eternals, Nomadland is anything but to...
The 2021 Oscar Nominees. The 2021 Oscar nominations were announced on March 15th, 2021. Below, you’ll find our reviews to all of the 2021 Oscar nominees, including “ The Father,” “ Judas and the Black Messiah,” “ Mank,” “ Nomadland,” and many more.
Two generations of a special family, threatened by evil but touched by magic, must save each other as the mysteries of the past and present collide within a secret and fantastic world held captive by the curses of an evil sorceress. A fantasy-adventure tale that explores the bonds of family, and the magic that can touch lives generations apart ...
Mar 15, 2021 · Nutshell via Pete Hammond’s video review: This 10-year journey to the screen proves well worth the effort as both a technical triumph of filmmaking and a humane and enlightening character study ...
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