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 Around 72 hours until Oscar night, as I am typing, and it's an exciting year, with a lot of heated Academy Award races, a lot of good nominees, and a lot of excitement and anticipation. My best movie rankings of last year, you'll find here . The Best Picture field isn't bad. I can't complain about Wicked, which was extremely popular, and The Conclave, which checks a lot of Oscar boxes more than pleasantly enough but is more the Zan and Jayna Wonder Twins version of an Oscar movie than an actual Oscar movie.  I can't complain about The Substance.  I don't think it 100% works, largely because the ending felt like the place to go when the filmmakers didn't know where actually to go, so they picked a direction and just kept driving. The exact opposite of Anora, which ends brilliantly.  But if not perfect, The Substance has verve, vision, good performances. I'm Still Here, Dune Part Two, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist and Anora are all on my own list of b...