Robert Abele
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Live-action, documentary, animation: AMPAS nominates five worthy shorts in each category but only one will prevail. Here’s a guide to help you win your Oscars pool.
Director Paulo Sorrentino won an Oscar for “The Great Beauty” but seems to have gotten lost — not unpleasurably — in the sex appeal of his new Neapolitan drama.
Liza Minnelli’s rise was fueled not only by hard work and a famously jealous mom but by a group of mentors who honed the EGOT winner’s gifts into showbiz stardom.
Sophie Thatcher coolly holds down the center of a horror-comedy that’s closer in tone to the entertaining silliness of ‘M3GAN’ than anything truly disturbing.
The movie serves as a profile of wildlife rehabilitator Terry Masear, devoted to repairing broken birds, while articulating virtues of compassion and hope.
Writer-director Sandhya Suri draws on her background in documentary filmmaking to arrive at a detail-laden police procedural about abuses of power in India.
Claressa Shields, whose ring talents led her to Olympic glory, had a hard time connecting with a sponsor, as this sensitive, after-the-glory movie dramatizes.
A blockbuster in its native France, this three-hour thriller co-directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière will beguile all who commit to it.
Co-directed by “Wolfpack” filmmaker Crystal Moselle and star Derrick B. Harden, the fish-out-of-water comedy supplies a sweet dose of found community.
Based on Rachel Yoder’s surreal bestseller, director Marielle Heller’s comedic adaptation has been slightly tamed, but is lifted by its star’s feral commitment.