From Owen Gleiberman’s 3.12 Variety essay, “The Oscar Best Picture Winners Have Long Been a Sign of the Times — This Year Even More So.”
“It is not the purpose of this column to predict which [Best Picture nominee has the winning edge]. But this much can be said.
“If One Battle After Another wins, it will play as an affirmation of the power of movies to tap our most traumatic social and political anxieties and elevate them to a cathartic place. There may be no Oscar winner in history that has owned the zeitgeist like One Battle After Another.”
HE correction: There may be no Oscar contender in recent history that has owned the fraught and frazzled progressive psychology under Trump authoritarianism like One Battle After Another.
