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The Best Movie of the Year

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Samuel D. James
Mar 08, 2024
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Regret is a theme in this year’s Best Picture nominees. Oppenheimer might as well have been titled “Atomic Regret.” Barbie, the highest grossing movie of the year, suggests the inevitability of feminine regret in modern world. Killers of the Flower Moon could be considered a forensic examination of people who lack the capacity for remorse, and The Holdo…

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