The Oscar Expert

Following Follow Follows you

17,292Followers

The Oscar Expert

New York

youtube.com expert_oscar

Favorite films

Recent reviews

Mulholland Drive 2001

★★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025 4

David Lynch’s films always challenge how I engage with films. Watching with the goal of understanding, or unlocking the meaning, can only get you so far. The dizzying experience, not being able to rationally navigate the worlds he creates, is not an obfuscation of an underlying message, but the point. No one taps into the deep crevices of our brains like Lynch.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

★★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025 9

Filling your day with little tasks to pass the time as an extreme lifestyle. An unsustainable illness, masquerading as normalcy, even luxury.
A moment that struck me: when asked about her son she responds “what would I do without him”. There’s no joy in their relationship, but him being a responsibility gives her meaning. The moment where Dielmann is bored af so she tries to pick up that baby who’s not having it perhaps details her relationship with children in…

Popular reviews

Saltburn 2023

★★★ Watched 21 Nov 2023 117

Disappointing that it leaves the audience with absolutely nothing interesting to chew on. All the intrigue over the main character is reduced to an easy answer. The only discernible takeaway you could have from this is that wealth and beauty is something people really want and are drawn to. That's it.
It's crazy that a movie about class and the ultra-wealthy made in 2023 has so little to say. Maybe the movie wasn't trying to say anything and it just wanted to be a romp. That being said it's a pretty fun romp.
May December 2023

★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Nov 2023 57

This movie explores the deepest, most unspoken layers in each of its characters. Pitting the stories they tell themselves about who they are against an elusive truth, observing how they break down when confronted with just the suggestion of a reality that breaks their narrative.
I love filmmaking that allows the actors to tell a different story than the dialogue. May December puts you on your toes, watching every move of these characters, and the actors feed the shit out…

' ].join(''); if ( adsScript && adsScript === 'bandsintown' && adsPlatforms && ((window.isIOS && adsPlatforms.indexOf("iOS") >= 0) || (window.isAndroid && adsPlatforms.indexOf("Android") >= 0)) && adsLocations && adsMode && ( (adsMode === 'include' && adsLocations.indexOf(window.adsLocation) >= 0) || (adsMode === 'exclude' && adsLocations.indexOf(window.adsLocation) == -1) ) ) { var opts = { artist: "", song: "", adunit_id: 100005950, div_id: "cf_async_83a4c253-f33b-4dd5-be44-d0393d72df29" }; adUnit.id = opts.div_id; if (target) { target.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', adUnit); } else { tag.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', adUnit); } var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== 'undefined')c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement("script"),s=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];r.async=!0;r.src="//srv.tunefindforfans.com/fruits/apricots.js";r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if("loaded"==r.readyState||"complete"==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; } else { adUnit.id = 'pw-83a4c253-f33b-4dd5-be44-d0393d72df29'; adUnit.className = 'pw-div'; adUnit.setAttribute('data-pw-' + (renderMobile ? 'mobi' : 'desk'), 'sky_btf'); if (target) { target.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', adUnit); } else { tag.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', adUnit); } window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => { adUnit.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', kicker); window.ramp.que.push(function () { window.ramp.addTag('pw-83a4c253-f33b-4dd5-be44-d0393d72df29'); }); }, { once: true }); } } tag.remove(); })(document.getElementById('script-83a4c253-f33b-4dd5-be44-d0393d72df29'));