…and it doesn’t specifically matter anyway as we know who’s going to win the Best Actress Oscar, but if we could somehow know what we will never in fact know, who would be in second place, Maestro’s Carey Mulligan or Poor Things Emma Stone?
How great would it be if the actress who could arguably be said to have delivered the finest (deepest, strongest, most fully penetrating) lead performance actually won? Yeah, I know…dream on.
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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