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Who Will Win Big at the Oscars?
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This weekend is Oscar weekend. Your guess is as good as ours as to who the night’s winners might be, but here are some of our favorites among the nominees.
Secret Agent
(Courtesy of Neon)
Vikram Murthi: From its opening scene—a shakedown of Armando Solimões (Wagner Moura) by local authorities at a rural gas station—Kleber Mendonça Filho immerses viewers in a world of casual corruption and clandestine violence endemic to authoritarian rule.
One Battle After Another
John Semley: At first blush, Pynchon’s Vineland seemed unadaptable in a contemporary context…but Paul Thomas Anderson’s film proves that these more central divisions—between freaks and squares, parents and children, the rigid brokers of authority and subversive agents of liberation—can be mapped across American history.
Sinners
Stephen Kearse: Vampires, with their transgressive hunger for flesh and obsession with progeny, prove to be a potent vehicle for Ryan Coogler’s fascination with bloodlines. Although he doesn’t quite reinvent the classic creature, and his ambition gets ahead of him, the world into which he unleashes his vampires is rich with tensions and history.
Sirāt
(Courtesy of Neon)
Vikram Murthi: The ravers in Sirāt have learned the hard way that traditional social structures were never designed to save them. They must rely on themselves.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Beatrice Loayza: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You endorses the well-seasoned argument that women will be judged more fiercely than their male counterparts for their parental failures, gesturing at a constellation of such case studies. Yet Mary Bronstein proves less interested in exploring the gender disparity in childrearing, sidestepping a more generic resolution that entails marital reconciliation and an open acknowledgement of the rift.
Marty Supreme
Current Issue
April 2026 Issue
Erin Schwartz: Marty’s real talent: the art of never-ending arbitrage, leveraging each small lucky break toward a bigger and bigger payday. That this produces a cascade of escalating disasters doesn’t dissuade him—it’s all in pursuit of greatness, and if he achieves greatness, it was all worth it.
Sentimental Value
Alana Pockros: With Sentimental Value, [Joachim] Trier makes the case that nostalgia doesn’t have to drag one down but can actually propel one forward.
It Was Just an Accident
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Alex Kong: Jafar Panahi defied the attempts to silence him by making films in secret throughout this time. It Was Just an …
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(Courtesy of A24 / Warner Bros / NEON)
This weekend is Oscar weekend. Your guess is as good as ours as to who the night’s winners might be, but here are some of our favorites among the nominees.
Secret Agent
(Courtesy of Neon)
Vikram Murthi: From its opening scene—a shakedown of Armando Solimões (Wagner Moura) by local authorities at a rural gas station—Kleber Mendonça Filho immerses viewers in a world of casual corruption and clandestine violence endemic to authoritarian rule.
One Battle After Another
John Semley: At first blush, Pynchon’s Vineland seemed unadaptable in a contemporary context…but Paul Thomas Anderson’s film proves that these more central divisions—between freaks and squares, parents and children, the rigid brokers of authority and subversive agents of liberation—can be mapped across American history.
Sinners
Stephen Kearse: Vampires, with their transgressive hunger for flesh and obsession with progeny, prove to be a potent vehicle for Ryan Coogler’s fascination with bloodlines. Although he doesn’t quite reinvent the classic creature, and his ambition gets ahead of him, the world into which he unleashes his vampires is rich with tensions and history.
Sirāt
(Courtesy of Neon)
Vikram Murthi: The ravers in Sirāt have learned the hard way that traditional social structures were never designed to save them. They must rely on themselves.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Beatrice Loayza: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You endorses the well-seasoned argument that women will be judged more fiercely than their male counterparts for their parental failures, gesturing at a constellation of such case studies. Yet Mary Bronstein proves less interested in exploring the gender disparity in childrearing, sidestepping a more generic resolution that entails marital reconciliation and an open acknowledgement of the rift.
Marty Supreme
Current Issue
April 2026 Issue
Erin Schwartz: Marty’s real talent: the art of never-ending arbitrage, leveraging each small lucky break toward a bigger and bigger payday. That this produces a cascade of escalating disasters doesn’t dissuade him—it’s all in pursuit of greatness, and if he achieves greatness, it was all worth it.
Sentimental Value
Alana Pockros: With Sentimental Value, [Joachim] Trier makes the case that nostalgia doesn’t have to drag one down but can actually propel one forward.
It Was Just an Accident
(Courtesy of Neon)
Alex Kong: Jafar Panahi defied the attempts to silence him by making films in secret throughout this time. It Was Just an …
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Who Will Win Big at the Oscars?
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(Courtesy of A24 / Warner Bros / NEON)
This weekend is Oscar weekend. Your guess is as good as ours as to who the night’s winners might be, but here are some of our favorites among the nominees.
Secret Agent
(Courtesy of Neon)
Vikram Murthi: From its opening scene—a shakedown of Armando Solimões (Wagner Moura) by local authorities at a rural gas station—Kleber Mendonça Filho immerses viewers in a world of casual corruption and clandestine violence endemic to authoritarian rule.
One Battle After Another
John Semley: At first blush, Pynchon’s Vineland seemed unadaptable in a contemporary context…but Paul Thomas Anderson’s film proves that these more central divisions—between freaks and squares, parents and children, the rigid brokers of authority and subversive agents of liberation—can be mapped across American history.
Sinners
Stephen Kearse: Vampires, with their transgressive hunger for flesh and obsession with progeny, prove to be a potent vehicle for Ryan Coogler’s fascination with bloodlines. Although he doesn’t quite reinvent the classic creature, and his ambition gets ahead of him, the world into which he unleashes his vampires is rich with tensions and history.
Sirāt
(Courtesy of Neon)
Vikram Murthi: The ravers in Sirāt have learned the hard way that traditional social structures were never designed to save them. They must rely on themselves.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Beatrice Loayza: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You endorses the well-seasoned argument that women will be judged more fiercely than their male counterparts for their parental failures, gesturing at a constellation of such case studies. Yet Mary Bronstein proves less interested in exploring the gender disparity in childrearing, sidestepping a more generic resolution that entails marital reconciliation and an open acknowledgement of the rift.
Marty Supreme
Current Issue
April 2026 Issue
Erin Schwartz: Marty’s real talent: the art of never-ending arbitrage, leveraging each small lucky break toward a bigger and bigger payday. That this produces a cascade of escalating disasters doesn’t dissuade him—it’s all in pursuit of greatness, and if he achieves greatness, it was all worth it.
Sentimental Value
Alana Pockros: With Sentimental Value, [Joachim] Trier makes the case that nostalgia doesn’t have to drag one down but can actually propel one forward.
It Was Just an Accident
(Courtesy of Neon)
Alex Kong: Jafar Panahi defied the attempts to silence him by making films in secret throughout this time. It Was Just an …
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