Oscars 2024

This awards season had it all: Bradley Cooper spending six years in conducting school for a six-minute sequence that people pretended to care about; Cillian Murphy losing his title as Ireland’s Sweetheart to Ayo Edebiri; Barbie snubs probably heard around the ghost offices of the gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss co-working space, the Wing. All of that pandering and excitement and anger of the last cinematic calendar year came to a close with the 2024 Academy Awards on March 10. See all the winners here.

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All the Nominees (That We Reviewed)

Oppenheimer Is a Tragedy of Operatic Grandeur Christopher Nolan’s movie about the invention of the atomic bomb is almost too big to wrap your head around.
We Shouldn’t Have to Grade Barbie on a Curve Greta Gerwig made a weird movie based on a famous toy line. Should that be enough?
Is Poor Things the Best We Can Do for Female Sexuality Onscreen? Emma Stone fully commits to a banal rendition of faux-feminist sexual freedom.
Killers of the Flower Moon Turns Out to Be the Simplest, Slipperiest of Things It’s not Martin Scorsese’s western, and it’s not another gangster epic. It’s his marriage story.
We’re Going to Be Talking About American Fiction All Awards Season Long Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, American Fiction, is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright.
Anatomy of a Fall Proves We Don’t Know Anything The Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom thriller and a marital drama, but it’s also about how we’ve lost the ability to grasp reality.
Paul Giamatti Is Never Better Than When He’s in an Alexander Payne Movie Prep school dramedy The Holdovers, the pair’s first collaboration since Sideways, showcases Giamatti’s capacity for the prickly and the heartbreaking.
Maestro Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just That The Leonard Bernstein biopic somehow proves that Bradley Cooper is a director of genuine vision, even though it’s not a particularly successful movie.

Past Lives Is Tasteful, Understated, and Unconvincing Celine Song’s directorial debut reaches for wistful romances but ends up just feeling calculated.
Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz Drama Borders on the Unwatchable The shock of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Auschwitz drama is not in the graphic terrors it depicts, but in what it doesn’t show.
Todd Haynes’s May December Is a Deeply Uncomfortable Movie Watching it with an audience, I found myself cackling with delight. Stepping out into the rainy night, however, I felt like I needed to take a shower.
The Blood Is Everywhere in Pablo Larraín’s Mesmerizing El Conde It’s fun to imagine this piece of agitprop provocation just appearing on the screens of millions of Netflix subscribers across the world.
Miyazaki Didn’t Lose a Step Back from temporary retirement, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film, The Boy and the Heron, is a reminder of what makes him an animation legend.
Pixar’s Messy Metaphor for Interracial Romance Elemental is the story of what happens when fire meets water, falls in love, and turns into immigrant stereotypes.
Nimona Was Worth the Wait After multiple delays and a studio shutdown, the film arrives on Netflix with something specific to say about its queer characters and the status quo.
The Push-Pull of Brutality and Joy at the Heart of The Color Purple The movie musical adaptation of the classic novel (and film) carves out its own path.

To Its Credit, Nyad Makes Its Subject Look Like a Real Asshole Nyad may be a frustrating biopic, but at least it doesn’t soften the self-mythologizing long-distance swimmer’s rougher edges.
Rustin Is a Solid History Lesson But Not a Particularly Good Movie Colman Domingo is fantastic, however.
The Creator Is a Shockingly Good Sci-Fi Riff on Vietnam War Movies There’s a particularly American flavor to the violence done in the name of saving the world in Gareth Edwards’s tenderhearted The Creator.
Godzilla As an ‘Undiscerning God’ Japan’s new Godzilla Minus One may not have the budget of its American counterparts, but at least it’s actually about something.
It’s Nice to See a Good Marvel Movie Again With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Marvel reminds us why we used to like this stuff.
A Familiar Magic Trick Executed to Perfection Tom Cruise does what he does in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. He is very good at what he does.
Napoleon Charges in Without a Plan Ridley Scott’s new historical epic isn’t good, but at least it gives us an unforgettably weird Joaquin Phoenix performance.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Is Too Entertaining to Dismiss A movie about going back in time turns out to be something of a time machine itself.
There’s a Simple Enough Conceit in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar A quaint, optimistically naive short kicks off Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl film series.

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All the Nominees (That We Reviewed)

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