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    Why 'Tár' deserves several Oscars, including best picture

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Mar 03, 2023 6 minutes
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    LOS ANGELES — Final voting for the Oscars is now underway; the results will be unveiled on March 12. Not being a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (an ideal arrangement for all involved), I don't get a ballot, though if I did, here's how I would fill it out.

    Best picture

    "All Quiet on the Western Front"

    "Avatar: The Way of Water"

    "The Banshees of Inisherin"

    "Elvis"

    "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

    "The Fabelmans"

    "Tár"

    "Top Gun: Maverick"

    "Triangle of Sadness"

    "Women Talking"

    Should win: "Tár." It's dispiriting if unsurprising that, apart from the many critics' prizes it's racked up, the best of this year's nominees has never really been considered a plausible front-runner. While Cate Blanchett's commanding performance has understandably dominated attention, it's the entire damn world that director Todd Field builds around her — the fully realized sphere of power and influence through which Lydia Tár moves — that gives "Tár" its intellectual acuity, its riveting texture and (charges of coldness be damned) its extraordinary emotional force.

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