There’s always a reckoning. There has to be. A studio chief tells me that next awards season they’re going to recalibrate how they screen to voters “because there are a bunch of movies that people did not bother to see.
Good movies that people did not watch because they were drawn to the noise. And the noise won.” Look, gazillions of words have been written about the season that finally ended Sunday at the Dolby Theatre with a Best Picture win for A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Yes, it was a breakthrough for diversity and I’m not going to deny that I was moved by the wins for Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, though I am not the biggest fan of the film itself.
It did not warm me to the marrow of my being. I did not feel it in my bones as Richard Burton once told me of his abiding love for Elizabeth Taylor.
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