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Anora **

Every awards season, I am stunned that certain films are nominated and, in some cases, even win… This year, it's Anora… The title character (played by Mikey Madison) is surprisingly naive, conniving, and duplicitous, and engenders zero empathy. And, without empathy, there's nothing.
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl ****
Flow ***1/2
The Wild Robot ***

It is a pleasure to watch three well-crafted candidates for the Oscar [in the animated film] category.The Latvian-produced Flow is the most beautiful of this trio of films…Dreamworks' The Wild Robot…[is] well-produced, clever,  but more cute than engaging.

My personal favorite of these films is –Vengeance Most Fowl…After a series of W&G movies that were less than stellarVengeance is a welcome return to a more fully-realized, sophisticated, and satisfying story.

(All this being said, I'd put my money on Flow winning the Oscar.)
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