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    'Drive My Car' deserves a best picture nomination. Will the Oscars take notice?

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Jan 28, 2022 7 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — I think "Drive My Car," the much-acclaimed drama from Japanese writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, is the best picture of 2021. I'm not alone.

    A quietly transcendent road movie about life, art, grief and desire, exquisitely elaborated from a Haruki Murakami short story, "Drive My Car" has become the year's runaway critical sensation. The reviews have been ecstatic, the top-10 placements unceasing. The movie is heavily favored to win the international feature prize at the Oscars in March, though some of us wager it deserves more than a consolation prize. Several top critics' organizations — including the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the National Society of Film Critics and the Toronto Film Critics Association — have already named "Drive My Car" the year's best film. Not the best international film, but the best film, period.

    This remarkable consensus has taken many by surprise, including some of us who helped engineer it. (I'm a voting member of LAFCA and the NSFC; both groups, along with the NYFCC, have a number of members in common.) "Drive My Car" may be a masterpiece, but

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