The last major player to enter the arena smashes their way onto the Oscars podium with the brazen guile of a contender so high on their own myth that any number of battles after another or wicked things that come their way couldn’t possibly stop them.
It’s not Josh Safdie’s “sports comedy-drama” (as Wikipedia laughably, misleadingly called it) itself that’s barnstorming a path to victory, although it is a riot of muscular film-making that will surely swing a best picture nomination.
