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Oscar Noms and Hot Takes

Gentle readers: Oscar nominations were announced today and if you’re anything like me, you are drowning in Oscar coverage. So here is some more coverage. (You’re welcome.) I’m adapting this blog from an email where I regaled my friends with my very unsolicited, very lengthy opinions about said nominations. And they were like, “OK.” I…

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REVIEW: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’

Guillermo del Toro is the king of oddities. Throughout his storied career, he’s taken on everything from comic book adaptations and horror films to giant alien robots, yet the writer-director never fails to impassion his dark fantasy tales with beauty, heart and magic—everything you’d ever want from a trip to the movies. His most recent, The…