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 It’s an exciting year, with a lot of races that are still considered up in the air and an overall excellent list of nominees. Big picture, it’s hard for me to think of anything that’s a real complete gobsmacking snub, i.e., not just that a great something or other hasn’t been nominated, but that I can readily identify the nomination whose torch I’d blow out with a good explanation why. But for all the excitement and the buzz in the air, I’m frustrated and annoyed and peeved and something something something that there’s a strong sense that One Battle After Another is going to win Best Picture. It’s a good movie, sure. It’s on my top ten .  But it isn’t even the best Warner Brothers picture of 2025.  One Battle takes an awfully long time to find its footing, and it’s a good movie with some nifty stuff. In five or ten years I’ll be curious to see it again, kind of like how I’m kind of curious to see There Will be Blood.  I’m thinking of the car chase scene.  I’m ...

11:35 PM GMT:  And you can’t possibly duplicate at home the experience of seeing K Pop Demon Hunters in a theatre with hundreds of passionate fans singing along.  Will it last, like DIrty Dancing, which I saw in Sing-a-long a couple nights ago, 39 years after its release?  Well, I probably won’t be around in 39 years to know. 11:31 PM GMT: So, K Pop Demon Hunters is the only animated movie I’ve seen in the past couple lyears that I haven’t actively disliked.  Haven’t yet added Hoppers to my Letterboxd diary, but that one, at least when I dozed off, I woke back up for the end of the movie rather than staying asleep.  But, I couldn’t stayed sleeping, wouldn’t have missed much. 11:25 PM GMT: Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue didn’t land the way last year’s did.  It managed to be surprisingly political without being political.  The joke about the Epstein files is less political than it seems because you’ve got the MAGA MTG crowd that aren’t any happier wit...