Presidents, tycoons, and history with a face on it.
Schrader's most formally daring
Day-Lewis's first great transformation
Campion on Janet Frame
Lee's most ambitious film
Stone's most sympathetic portrait
Mann's most patient
Hayek's passion project, and a genuinely beautiful film
Mirren, and a film about a week
Penn, and a film that arrived exactly on time
Best Picture; better than its reputation
Turing, and a film that made a national apology feel overdue
Redmayne's Oscar
Sorkin in three acts, backstage each time
Kaluuya and Stanfield
Stewart, and a horror film in disguise
the anti-*Elvis*
the Von Erich family, relentlessly sad
Linklater in one room
