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In the lead up to the Academy Awards (airing next Sunday, March 15), we put the 10 Best Picture nominees under the same deceptively simple microscope: How dads in film are portrayed this year. Joining the conversation, as usual, is our fav culture writer Richard Lawson, the acclaimed critic, member of the New York Film Critics Circle, author of the Premier Party newsletter, and host of the Critical Darlings podcast.
This Oscar season, we unpack what makes the fathers in Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Train Dreams, Sinners, and The Secret Agent, tick. We wonder if we’d have liked Marty Supreme more if he hadn’t abandoned the dog, or liked Hamnet more, if Hamlet weren’t involved. What can One Battle After Another tell us about the disdain MAGA has for children, the evolving emotional core of American men, and its exhausted women? Why was Jesse Plemons robbed of a Best Actor nom for Bugonia? Who’s the hotter twin in Sinners? Who will win Best Director? Richard tells all.
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Yours,
Matt, Erin, Elizabeth
