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Every year , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expire through the trouble of nominating a bunch of movies for a wide regalia of different awards . Some years are skillful than others , and all in all , the slate of 2023 movies they nominate is pretty solid . Many wildly imaginative , interesting movies are in this year ’s slate .
Even when the Academy does a pretty good job , though , there are some performance and entire movies that do n’t make the swing , and often all unjustly . While much of the ire this year has focused on the various ways Barbie was snubbed , the Academy blanked another not bad movie . Wes Anderson’sAsteroid City , the latest plastic film from the victor theatre director , was completely blank by the Academy , but here are three reasons we jazz it anyway :
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It’s among the most technically perfect movies of the year
While many citizenry understandably give attention to the Oscars for the performances and the stories of the twelvemonth ’s better movies , most big movies are made great thanks to all the expert study that is arduous to pick out . There are sets to be design , costumes to be created , and careful choices about how a movie should reckon and sound . Wes Anderson ’s film are always unusually accurate in this regard , andAsteroid Cityis no different .
The movie ’s sets are impeccably designed with the director ’s notorious attention to detail , and the movie ’s cinematography bring out the sort of vibrant color that innovative movie seldom have . Before you even get to the taradiddle , there are like eight different craftiness categories where this movie merited a nomination .
It features a roster of amazing talent
If you were upset that Margot Robbie did n’t grade a nomination forBarbie , you might be as upset to learn she has a beautiful , pivotal vista inAsteroid City . However , Robbie is far from the only someone whose work merited a nomination . Jason Schwartzman is terrific in the moving-picture show ’s central theatrical role , and Scarlett Johansson is just as undecomposed as the film ’s female lead . There ’s also Tom Hanks , Bryan Cranston , Maya Hawke , Edward Norton , Adrian Brody , and a panoply of other wonderful performers who all do the most they can , given their relatively special screen time . It ’s one of the undecomposed casting Anderson has ever assembled , which is enunciate something , gift the overall timber of his casting .
It’s a movie about why Wes Anderson makes movies
Wes Anderson ’s vogue , which features cautiously controlled lot and stilted duologue , among other elements , can be alien to some viewers who do n’t apprize the mode he use ruse .
InAsteroid City , though , Wes is laying out beatnik for heartbeat exactly why he tells stories this way . He does n’t sympathise the public , or what anything means , or why we misplace the people we bang . All he knows how to do is keep state stories and hope for the best , so that ’s precisely what he does . AndAsteroid Cityis one of the best stories he ’s ever differentiate .
Asteroid Cityis now streaming onAmazon Prime Video .
