Tag Archives: Oscars
Review in Brief: Marty Supreme (2025)
You remember how the main draw of the Safdie Brothers’ UNCUT GEMS was seeing a terrible human being make the worst possible decision time and time again and dig himself an ever-deeper hole? Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME is that again … Continue reading
Sam’s Oscar Best Picture Catch-up
Review in Brief: One Battle After Another (2025)
By all rights, a film so timely, so powerfully relevant, shouldn’t be this entertaining as well. It’s disheartening to see how little the world has changed in the decade and a half the film takes place over; evil never dies, … Continue reading
Review in Brief: I’m Still Here (2024)
This is such a quietly unsettling portrayal of state cruelty. During Brazil’s military dictatorship, the family of former congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) are watched, intimidated and interrogated by the regime following the disappearing of Rubens, leaving his wife Eunice … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Tár (2022)
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but TÁR is a bit good. An often uncomfortably close character study of a complicated genius, we follow conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) hailed as the greatest of her generation as she goes through … Continue reading
Every Non-English Language Best Picture Nominee Ranked
Review in Brief: Flee (2021)
FLEE, an animated memoir/documentary telling of Afghan migrant Amin’s remarkable journey, is some powerful stuff. I’ve heard some people find the animation somehow alienating, that it lessons Amin’s story but I just don’t agree. The style of the animation, almost … Continue reading
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