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For Your Consideration – “Star Wars” possibly out and Netflix is in!
The awards season is coming into focus.  Over the next two months, critics, including this one, will find their inboxes full as distributors and studios try to get the word out about their particular film. Of the films I’ve received thus far, Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s “The Assassin” is the kind of lush cinematic experience that cineaste’s relish.  As Taiwan’s selection for the best foreign language film Oscar, it looks like a…
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The Other Four: Jonathan wraps up his review of the remaining Best Picture nominees.
In this final look at the films nominated for the Oscar for best picture, I consider the merits of the remaining four nominees. While at the end of last year, I called “Birdman” the year’s best movie, recent momentum suggests that the race is a toss up. And in the wake of the SAG awards, best actor is very much in play as well. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of…