The 2023 cinematographic vintage will have revealed itself to be of extraordinary quality and incredible diversity. A reality reflected in the various nominations for the Oscar evening, which will take place on Sunday March 10. To help movie fans get their heads together as the ceremony approaches, The duty thought of bringing together all its texts — reviews, interviews, analyzes — dealing with the films competing in one or more categories.
These films are in the running in one or more of the following categories: best film, direction, original or adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, costumes, music, feature documentary or animated feature film.
American Fiction by Cord Jefferson:
➤ Review | American Fiction: the black experience for white people
Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet:
➤ Go to Anatomy of a fall or not?
➤ Anatomy of a fall: victim or murderer?
➤ Review | Anatomy of a fall: author, mother, wife… murderer?
barbie by Greta Gerwig:
➤ Review | barbie: 50 shades of pink
Elemental by Peter Sohn:
➤ Review | Elemental: boiling fluidity of love
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny by James Mangold:
➤ Review | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Harrison Ford still imposes
➤ Indiana Jones in five women
Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese:
➤ Review | Killers of the Flower Moon: Leonardo DiCaprio as snake man
➤ Scorsese on his genocidal western
The teachers’ room from İlker Çatak:
➤ Review | The teachers’ room: when school becomes a source of anxiety
The circle of snow by Juan Antonio Bayona:
➤ Review | The circle of snow: the haunted survivors
The boy and the heron by Hayao Miyazaki:
➤ TIFF bewitched by Miyazaki magic
➤ Review | The boy and the heron: the eternal magic of Miyazaki
➤ Video | Visit The boy and the heron or not?
Olfa’s daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania:
➤ Review | Olfa’s daughters: the true from the false
Maestro by Bradley Cooper:
➤ Maestro: the little music of Bradley and Carey
➤ Review | Maestro: symphony of married life
➤ Video | Visit Maestro or not?
May December from Todd Haynes:
➤ Todd Haynes, or this luminous monstrosity
➤ Review | May December: the actress, the attacker and the butterfly
Me, captain by Matteo Garrone:
➤ Me, captainor dream at the risk of one’s life
Napoleon by Ridley Scott:
➤ Napoleon: the emperor’s new clothes
➤ Review | Napoleon: not Waterloo, but not Austerlitz either
Nyad by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin:
➤ Nyad: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, or the right not to be gentle
➤ Review | Nyad: the old woman who swam in the sea
Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan:
➤ Review | Oppenheimer: a grandiose epic on a dark page of history
➤ The bomb Oppenheimer
Past Lives by Celine Song:
➤ Review | Past Lives: a love at odds
Perfect Days by Wim Wenders:
➤ Perfect Days: the zenitude of Wim Wenders
➤ Review | Perfect Days: Wenders to perfection
Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos:
➤ Emma Stone, the fearless star
➤ Video | Poor creatures: a film to watch, or not?
➤ Review | Poor Things: resuscitation, sex and emancipation
➤ Poor Things: intellectual and sexual emancipation
Rustin by George C. Wolfe:
➤ Rustin: the Domingo effect
➤ Review | Rustin: the hero behind Martin Luther King
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse by Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson:
➤ Review | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: born under a very good canvas
The Color Purple from Blitz Bazawule:
➤ Oprah’s secrets on The Color Purple
➤ Review | The Color Purple: a hymn to resilience
The Holdovers from Alexander Payne:
➤ The Holdovers: the boarder, the cook and the misanthrope
➤ Review | The Holdovers: the misanthrope’s Christmas
The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer:
➤ The Zone of Interestwhere evil lives next door
➤ Review | The Zone of Interest: this idyllic infamy
➤ Video | Visit The Zone of Interest or not?