2017 deserves credit for spurring one of the rarest of all events in modern filmmaking: an Oscars ceremony where there is more than one deserving entry for Best Picture.
The Academy Awards have a long, aggravating history of giving top honors and nominations to thorough mediocrities, good movies, and outright travesties mostly, with one or at most two great movies sneaking in.
In 2017, however, three great movies – Lady Bird, Get Out, and Phantom Thread – made it into the big category alongside the good (Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, and Call Me By Your Name), the bad (The Post, Darkest …
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