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Why It Would Be Really Dumb for the Oscars Not to Nominate ‘Challengers’ for Best Picture
Can a movie as high-wire skillful — and as crowd-pleasing — as Luca Guadagnino's sporty love-triangle drama make the best picture race?
The film is cunningly written, hypnotically structured, brilliantly directed, dazzlingly shot, and features some of the finest acting of the year. And it’s one that connected decisively, earning $50 million at the domestic box office (a beyond-solid figure for a mid-budget adult drama these days). There has to be room at the Oscars for something between large-scale mostly fantasy spectacle and the kind of precious self-serious art parable that less than a million people will actually go to see in a movie theater.
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