Category: Oscars 2026
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Despite impressive performances by Adam Sandler and George Clooney, Jay Kelly suffers from a crisis of identity, not unlike the main character. In one scene in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly (2025), the eponymous movie star is dancing in a room full of people celebrating his legacy and presence at a film festival in Italy. The…
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Yorgos Lanthimos takes an absurd concept and weaves it into gold in this new picture about a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps a female CEO.
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With stellar performances from Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value examines how art and life can imitate each other, in both tragic and poetic ways. When I saw director Joachim Trier’s previous film The Worst Person in the World (2021), I wasn’t moved. I don’t know why, but there was something about the film…
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Today, I went to the Cinema Society screening of Frankenstein (2025), followed by a Q&A with director Guillermo del Toro and actor Jacob Elordi, who plays The Creature. It was an insanely cool experience. Roger Durling began the screening with a statement of “Welcome to church!” It certainly felt like it, with a packed crowd…
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