你没看过波西米亚狂想曲！？那很好。tl80的工作人员收集了我们2018年的集体电影观看经验，并命名了奥斯卡提名的电影，你可以放心跳过，包括那些我们自己甚至没有看。实际上，你可以安全地跳过任何电影，永远，这就是娱乐的工作方式。但你尤其可以跳过这些！

A Star Is Born

I am pleased to relieve you of any compulsion you felt to see A Star Is Born. The people who tell you it’s amazing are being manipulated by gauzy lighting and melodramatic music. The characters and story are thin. Bradley Cooper has about three lines and they are all inaudible. Lady Gaga can sing but you already knew that. It’s a humdrum love story that feels dated, of another time, out of touch with the complex, layered storytelling and rich characterizati*** of, say, Black KkKlan**an or Can You Ever Forgive Me? More like A Star Is Bored and that star is me, and not you, because you’re not going to see this schmaltzy flick.

Melissa Kirsch, Editor-in-Chief

BlacKkKlan**an

After watching BlacKkKlan**an, I figured a lot of flaws—the mundane dialogue, the awkward arc, the weird motivati*** that drove the main characters to rookie mistakes, the bad guys who are suddenly good guys and then suddenly bad guys again—must have come out of sticking close to the real-life source material. And then I read director Boots Riley’s essay on how much this story was whitewashed to make racist cops look better. The real cops had been just as hostile toward black civil rights groups as they had toward the KKK. There wasn’t really a story here worth telling. Know what’s worth telling? Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, probably the most culturally important movie of 2018, which has zero Oscar nominati***.

Nick Douglas, Staff Writer

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs is not bad. It’s just not as good as hipster god/fashion icon Wes Anderson’s other animal-based claymation wonderland, Fantastic Mr. Fox. Whereas Mr. Fox had all the right stars (Streep! Clooney!), Isle of Dogs is so overstuffed with Anderson’s go-to players that you’ll be googling who’s who on your phone most of the time (oh, that’s F. Murray Abraham’s voice?). Now this isn’t to say that I dislike Wes Anderson movies—in fact I love them!—this just isn’t his best one, and it’s not even his best animated one. When all is said and done, this will be a footnote in Anderson’s canon, taking a backseat to Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, and Royal Tenenbaums.

Joel Kahn, Senior Video Producer

Green Book

Green Book is a movie ostensibly about race relati*** that resulted in the white actor being nominated for Best Actor and the black actor being nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars. That tells you a lot about the substance of this movie, and if you watched the Golden Globes, then you know that the white director thinks raci** can be “solved” if people would just talk and get to know one another a little better (he also apparently thinks it’s funny to surprise people by taking his dick out on set). That mentality has no basis in reality, but it is one Hollywood loves. In fact, it loves it so much that I’m sure we’ll be treated to a similar movie in a few months—so if you miss this one, you won’t really be missing anything (except a movie about race relati*** where the white lead thinks it’s ok to say the N word in real life). Mahershala deserves more.

Alicia Adamczyk, Personal Finance Writer

VICE

I would say skip VICE because it was very annoying to watch. The pacing and the tone were both all over the place. Sometimes I felt like I was watching an overly clever powerpoint presentation. If you’re watching because you like seeing Christian Bale act, see any other Christian Bale movie. If you like seeing him and Amy Adams interact, watch American Hustle or something. I don’t know. I’m not good at writing about movies.

Claire Lower, Food & Beverage Editor

Bohemian Rhapsody

I have not seen Bohemian Rhapsody, but am comfortable saying that unless you absolutely adore Queen and are hankering for as much Queen content as possible, you don’t need to see it. Our brilliant editor-in-chief Melissa pointed out recently that actual concert footage or a documentary is always more satisfying than a biopic, and this is a rule I plan to live by moving forward.

Virginia K. Smith, Managing Editor

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