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    The Oscars are embracing better movies. The show acts like it’s embarrassed by them

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2022 7 minutes
    Dedicated Oscar watchers, like Wordle players, spend a lot of time guessing at what might fill five empty slots, film critic Justin Chang says.

    LOS ANGELES — You might have noticed some social-media chatter several weeks ago about how everyone’s favorite guessing game suddenly wasn’t fun anymore — that it had tilted in a pretentious new direction. The game was becoming too obscure, for the average American player. People were having to think too damn hard — and, worse, to admit there might be things they don’t know.

    Nobody likes that. Some of the winning answers sounded suspiciously foreign; did they really belong? What ever happened to plain English? What about the easy choices, the popular choices, the choices everyone knows and loves?

    I’m speaking, of course, about Wordle, the viral brainteaser acquired in January by the New York Times, spurring many users to complain that the winning five-letter words had suddenly gotten a lot tougher (what the hell’s a “tacit”?), and that the Times must have been responsible. (They hadn’t, and it wasn’t.) But I could also be describing some of the tediously anti-intellectual sentiments swirling around this year’s Oscar nominees. The motion picture academy is irrelevant and out of touch. The films are too obscure. The

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