It’s a clockwork ritual of awards season.
A movie in contention, one based on a true story, will be dinged for presenting a version of reality that isn’t real enough.
The critical chatter often starts on Twitter, but it can come from anywhere, ultimately spreading to the mainstream media.
We’ve seen this happen with dramas as disparate as “A Beautiful Mind” and “Green Book” and “Mank.” The original source of the attack can often be a rival studio, out to damage an awards competitor (a tactic that was turned into a kind of bloodsport by Harvey Weinstein).
Yet it’s a curious thing: By the time the Oscars have come and gone, the criticisms tend to roll right off the movie in question.
It’s as if, awards season aside, they never mattered all that much in the first place.Yet I’m not sure that’s…
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