‘Oppenheimer’ Oscar Surge Reminds Us How Much Movies Can Still Matter
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 11, 2024
The movies, if I dare say it, used to hold us together. They were a shared dream — which is why I wanted to become a film critic, not a poetry critic. The mass mythology of movies felt singular, intoxicating, enveloping, cathartic. And the Oscars have always been part of that. In embracing the world of movies, they seemed to embrace the whole world, period.
