Tarantino’s cinematic ode to the movie industry is so relaxed it is barely a film at all and there are scenes that will stay with you for daysOne of the highlights of the final furlong of awards season is the Hollywood Reporter’s Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot series, in which Scott Feinberg talks outrageous truths out of an anonymous voter (whose identity Twitter then scurries to guess).The first one this year was quite the corrective for all those who thought 1917 was a lock-in for best picture – unless Parasite were to dazzlingly pip it.
Turns out, both of those movies are just too goddamn foreign.
Sam Mendes’s 1917 might be fine for the Baftas but the Oscars are an American bash and a Yank has got to win in order to make Hollywood great again.
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