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Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part One: The Major Awards

Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part One: The Major Awards

So it’s Academy Awards week. For a lot of us film nerds, it’s like our Super Bowl Sunday (although the nerdiest of film nerds are too cool for something so commercial as the Oscars). And, while most of you will be filling out March Madness brackets on Sunday, some of you may be participating in an Oscar pool. That’s where I come in. Over the next few days, I will be giving you my bet-the-house Oscar predictions in every category (PLEASE do not bet the house–this really is one of the most unpredictable Oscars in a long time). Feel free to steal them for yourself and dominate your Oscar pool.

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The Top 10 Films of 2022 – #2 – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

The Top 10 Films of 2022 – #2 – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

I love big, sprawling movies that are about big issues: the meaning of life, the nature of humanity, time and space, the emotional heights and depths of our existence. And there was one movie this year that was the biggest and sprawlingest (okay, not a word, but this film deserves a new word) mediations on literally all of those topics and more. To be fair, Everything Everywhere All at Once could have been my #1 movie of the year because it’s not only big and sprawling, but masterful and as emotionally fulfilling as film gets. While I liked one other film just a hair more, that’s not a reflection on any unworthiness here. Everything Everywhere All at Once lives up to its name in all the best ways.

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