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Culture Shot

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

What more does a genre film such as ‘Black Panther’ have to do to win Best Picture?

A man in messy clown makeup stares at a burning money pile.
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If your film is a commercial film, it has to reinvent its genre of choice, be constantly talked about by the press and audiences and/or have a hefty studio campaign budget standing behind it to even stand a chance at getting nominated. And then you’ll still lose to stuff such as “The Shape of Water.”
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Film & Television

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Meryl Streep shines, but ‘The Post’ disappoints, offering convoluted, disjointed ambitions

“The Post” struggles to find a balance between the story it is really telling and its commitment to larger ideologies, such as history.
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