Dunkirk and Darkest Hour, both 4 stars.
Finally saw Lady Bird. Or at least, started to watch then turned it off because it was clearly not aimed at me. As I am not, nor have I ever been, a teenage girl or a parent, and because I used to know people very similar to those characters and found the quite unlikeable, and I find the whole idea of watching dysfunctional families as a terrible way to spend my time, I knew I had to get out of there before I tore my hair out by its roots. Ugh.
My final ranking, having now seen all nine of the Best Picture nominees:
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[li]Three Billboards (4.0)[/li][li]The Post (4.0)[/li][li]Get Out (3.5)[/li][li]Call Me By Your Name (3.5)[/li][li]Phantom Thread (3.5)[/li][li]The Shape of Water (3.5)[/li][li]Lady Bird (3.5) [This got a bump from me after some discussion and debate with my wife last night][/li][li]Darkest Hour (3.5)[/li][li]Dunkirk (3.5)[/li][/ol]
I have now seen all the films in all the Oscar categories except for the following ones:
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
On Body and Soul
Kong: Skull Island
War for the Planet of the Apes
I have seen eight of the nine nominees for Best Picture.
Movie I would vote #1 if I had a vote:
The Shape of Water
Movies I wouldn’t be terribly disappointed about if they won:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
Movies that I would be disappointed about if they won (not because they are bad movies, just that they don’t stand out above other good movies not on the list):
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Movie I didn’t see:
Get Out
Movies I am most disappointed about not being nominated:
The Big Sick
Wind River
Logan
The Florida Project
And, while it is not the subject of this thread, A Fantastic Woman is A Fantastic Film.