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Critics' Conversation: Maher, 'Messiah,' 'Mank' and Other Oscar Odds and Ends

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DAVID ROONEY:So, it's the 900th day of the Oscar season that never ends, and we're all beaten down to sad states of broken surrender by the unrelenting deluge of awards punditry. ("Just hand out the damn statuettes!" he pleaded, quietly sobbing.) What gets to me at this point is not the mystifying breathlessness over who will win best editing, as if that's the climax of some nail-biting Barbara Stanwyck noir, but the proliferation of bad takes on an impressively diversified crop of contenders.

The worst of them was Bill Maher's insufferably glib segment renaming them "The Debbies: As in Debbie Downer… The 2021 Oscars, brought to you by razor blades, Kleenex and rope." Tee-hee.

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