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Article: Thank the Academy?(FILM)(Michael Clayton, Atonement, Juno)(Movie review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 10, 2008
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THE writers' strike is settled, the picketing scribes have dispersed to their keyboards, and if the stars feel any pangs of social conscience while strolling the red carpet they'll have only their fuel-guzzling, globe-warming private jets to blame. The Oscars, in other words, will go on as usual--and for the second year in a row, your faithful critic is playing catch-up, having failed to review three of the Best Picture nominees until now.
Inevitably, the Academy and I don't quite see eye to eye. If I were picking a suspense film for the final five, for instance, I would take Eastern Promises or Zodiac over Michael Clayton, a George Clooney vehicle that's torn between two ...
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