Oscar Goes To The Devil

Every year, before awards night, we put a mini push on tracking down some of the Oscar nominated films. We saw “Eno” and “A Complete Unknown” in the theater. The “Eno” film was exhilarating and should win all the awards. A Complete Unknown was really fun but gone before we got home. I was all wrong about “The Apprentice.” I thought it was going to revolve around his reality tv series, something we never saw in day, but it turns out Trump is the apprentice to a really slimy Roy Cohn, expertly played by Jeremy Strong. He deserves something for going that low. The movie though couldn’t quite capture the devil.

“Emilia Pérez” was pretty far fetched and sort of touching but I can’t imagine why it got all those nominations before the controversy. Demi Moore’s apartment in the “The Substance” was so boring it was distracting. The sci-fi concept was kind of cool in the beginning but it descended into hideous special effects territory.
The two cousins in “A Real Pain” were obnoxious. I found it hard to believe they were the main characters. The Chopin music was obnoxious. The best scene in the whole movie was when the Polish guy told them not to put their remembrance stones on the old lady’s doorstep.

We loved “100 Years of Solitude” but I guess that doesn’t qualify. But why wasn’t “Janet Planet” nominated? We loved that one. Still want to catch up with “The Brutalist,” “Conclave” and “Nosferatu.” Still wide open to recomendations.

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