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All 53 of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Movies and Shorts, Ranked
The feature-length and short films that were nominated in 2024 are, in the aggregate, the most impressive (to me) in years.
Whether it wins any Oscars or not, what Gerwig, Robbie, Noah Baumbach, Ryan Gosling, and a dazzling ensemble cast did was pull an impossible rabbit out of a hat, taking a product brief and turning it into a real movie with stakes, characters, and a ton of smart-stupid and stupid-smart humor. Justine Triet’s film succeeds on two levels: one, as a movie about an independent and unyielding woman who sees just how far those qualities get her in the court of public opinion when her husband dies of uncertain circumstances; the other, as a flat-out banger of a courtroom drama featuring an anything-goes vision of the French judicial system, depicted here as a cross between a grad-school symposium and a Real Housewives reunion. At three and a half hours, the film is free to explore the far-reaching tentacles of the plot against the Osage people, giving Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance time to marinate in its own bankrupt acidity and for Robert De Niro’s genial old viper to properly sharpen his fangs.
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