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I don't know anyone who liked Emilia Perez (I haven't seen it).

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I’d be curious to know your own nominations if you were choosing. I know you don’t like The Brutalist, but I wonder what your thoughts are on the use of generative AI in the film and whether it should have been disqualified for Best Picture.

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Yes to Anora! I hope it sweeps! (And not just because my son is in it)😀

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I’d swap out Nickel Boys for A Real Pain, Zoe Saldana for Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrian Brody for Jessie Eisenberg, and Carla Sofia Gascon for Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Flummoxed at all the love for Emilia Perez, a telenovela with delusions of being a real musical.

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I saw more than 100 movies last year but almost none of the nominees. Bad marketing? I have no idea. "The Apprentice" topped my list. I could barely make it through "Nickel Boys," which I saw at a film festival -- yes, it's an important story, but the disjointed narrative and woozy cinematography made me physically ill.

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Hard agree on The Substance’s lazy screenplay. It did not just beat the dead horse, it picked up the dead horse and beat the audience with it.

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