Two thirds of the way through Oppenheimer, I asked myself “Why did Christopher Nolan make this picture?” Because, except for a few cheesy nits, which I will most assuredly pick later, what we have gotten, about two hours in, is essentially a pseudo documentary, a laboriously accurate, $100 million reconstruction of the events leading up…
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Alan Vanneman reviews the 2017 Oscar losers
Well, in fact, Dunkirk (above) copped three Oscars, but all in the non-glamorous “technical” categories, while critical fave raves The Disaster Artist (one nomination only!), War for the Planet of the Apes (likewise!), The Post (two), and Baby Driver (three, but only “technicals”) were shut out entirely! Yeah, I guess no one cares about egomaniacs…
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk: Too cute!
Okay, we have changed the name of this website to “Snark R Us”, but bear with me. This is snark, but snark with a thesis. Is Dunkirk an extraordinary visual spectacle? Well, duh. Yeah. I saw it at the Lockheed IMAX in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, one of the biggest screens in the…