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Should have won best picture


Excellent film. Too bad Hollywood is courting China so hard these days, lol. Back in the day a film like this might've won.

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Definitely better than Everything, Everywhere All at Once. That’s up there with worst Best Picture winners

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We watched this for the first time the day after the oscars aired and both of us thought it was the best movie we’d seen from last year, and it wasn’t even nominated.

Okay then, so why wasn’t it even nominated for best adapted screenplay? It was clearly adapted from a play. They nominate several movies, like “Top Gun: Maverick” because they were based upon pre-existing characters! WTF? The adaptation for this movie deserved a nomination.

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