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Viewers, like Paul, are left negotiating with their own passivity, constraints and freedoms. Most strikingly, Gray doesn’t spare the audience — or himself — from this reckoning.

And as for the academy, the wins for “Mank” are a sign that the body still maintains a deep-seated aversion to change.

No film unambiguously swept the Awards, though the biggest winner of the night was “Nomadland,” taking home trophies for best picture, best director and best actress. 

Leave it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to show the Golden Globes how it's done. The nominees are a step up, but best of all, the Oscars are sweeping Zoom into the dustbin.

With love, “The Father” humbles arrogance. As the world goes topsy-turvy, the conviction that Anthony is imagining everything solidifies.

“The Two Popes” picks viewers’ brains in a relevant political age and atmosphere.

Many questions running through the season are answered, but their answers are traded for new questions about the larger implications of the plot reveals.

Like last episode, this episode of “Westworld” includes an abundance of exposition via flashback, specifically of one event: Juliet’s suicide.

This episode — the title of which is the Lakota word for “remember” — explains Akecheta’s backstory and the park’s opaque dynamics in a near-perfect set-up.

While this episode ramped up the action, it didn’t shy away from posing the philosophical questions “Westworld” is known for.