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Ahead of the official Academy nominations on Tuesday, Observer critics and film writers pick their standout movies, performances, directors and more

LOS ANGELES — We're a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies they've missed. (Or, from what I'm hearing, watching the ones they love once again instead of doing…

Awards season greetings! What you have here is the Gold Standard's first batch of acting power rankings where, yes, this week, it's a man's man's man's world. (We'll get to the women next week.) These are the performances that people are talking about, counting down toward the ones that are…

There’s a lot of fun to be had with this Brad Pitt-led action flick.

LOS ANGELES — We're still a couple of months away from Oscar nominations, but, outside of "Avatar: The Way of Water" and its glorious space whales, all the contenders have landed. Now it's just a matter of convincing voters to give them a look.

The new film "Causeway," in theaters and streaming on Apple TV+, centers on two remarkably low-key but nevertheless riveting performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry. The film is the first produced by Lawrence and is also the debut feature for director Lila Neugebauer.

Jennifer Lawrence gives a phenomenal performance as a US soldier who heals in more ways than one while recovering from a brain injury

Lawrence delivers an absolute masterclass in communicating so much while doing so little

In "Causeway," Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry play a pair of unlikely friends who share a bond forged over mutual loneliness.

Co-starring a similarly brilliant Brian Tyree Henry, Lila Neugebauer’s directorial debut finds a gentle, understated rhythm

In a stripped-down performance, the Oscar winner plays a vet reeling from trauma and struggling to readjust to hometown life.