Honestly I see an Adam McKay biopic of Dick Cheney having nearly a 60% chance of either getting critically slaughtered or just a strong consensus that it’s only okay–biopics of recent American figures almost never get Oscar kind of steam. To me it reeks of the unwise early prediction. First Man, The Favourite, Widows, and If Beale Street Could…[Read more]

No thanks. Consensus already rules the biggest category, focused passion should rule the others, that’s what gets Jordan Peele an Oscar. If the winners across the board are consensus things like Spotlight that so few people are even wild about, the Oscars become more disconnected from relevance than ever.

There aren’t a lot of great Netflix shows, but this is still not even close.

A+
Lady Bird
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Florida Project

A
The Shape of Water
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Big Sick
Good Time
Baby Driver
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Lost City of Z
Raw
Stronger
Personal Shopper
Logan Lucky
Lady…[Read more]

2014 for me. I like none of the movies and only Keaton a little of the performances, followed by Cooper. Gleeson, Fiennes, Gyllenhaal, Spall, and McConaughey would be my five.