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Could Kieran Culkin Win an Oscar for Playing Himself?
“He’s being criticized for not fully availing himself of his magical ability to have a complete and utter transformation.”
He’s a damaged guy who still lives at home, but he also possesses what Richard Brody calls “a weird, narcissistic empathy: his reaction to others is so strong that they disappear within his raging turmoil.” It’s a display of immense personal magnetism. “Culkin is an actor of emotional sensitivity who doesn’t grovel for the audience’s love, and he’s shockingly great here,” Manohla Dargis raved, calling his performance “transparently readable, sometimes viscerally destabilizing.” Throw in that Best Picture win at Friday night’s Critics Choice Awards — not exactly a major precursor but still nice to have — and it took only 24 hours for Anora ’s Oscars fortune to rise from rhinestones to diamonds.
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