What can be observed in front of the Oscars

In today's edition, To see the three films with just three nights ahead of the Oscars on Sunday. And how Amelia Dimoldenberg brings her guests on the way. Plus:

Justin Chang
Chang is a film critic and has been writing for the New York since 2024.

You are undoubtedly eager To catch up with Oscar-nominated films that will probably win great on Sunday. Hard. This list is dedicated to Oscar-nominated films that have little chance of winning on Sunday but are no less worth your attention.

“Nickel boy”
In the theaters, streaming on MGM+and available to rent online

This year's nail construction valley of a best picture race is a death game between “Anora” and “Conclave”, although I have colleagues who did not count “The Brutalist”, “a complete unknown” and even “evil”. What does it say that “Nickel Boys”, easily the best of the ten nominated – and the best American film that I saw in 2024 – have no shot when winning? Only that it does not take a taste into account. Oscar or no Oscar, Ramell Ross' adaptation of Colson Whiteheads 2019 -Roman is a zender, shimmering tour de force. It already flows, but try to catch it in a theater where the cameraman Jomo Fray's great pictures belong. Read our review »

“The seeds of the Holy Feige”
In the cinemas and available to rent online

In the weeks since the controversy that the campaign of “Emilia Pérez”, once a front leader for the best international feature film, tank, many have speculated that this prize will now go to “I am still here”, Walter Salles' drama about a family that is terrorized by the Brazilian military dictation. It is a moving, well -effective film and is based on a true story. However, “the seeds of the holy figs” by the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is a political and psychological story about how authoritarianism can destroy an ordinary household from the inside. Read our review »

“Another man”
Streaming on Max

Aaron Schimberg's dazzling comic fantasy has a completely deserved nomination for the best make -up and hairdresser. But in another world it would be a serious candidate in several categories: best picture, best original screenplay and the best actor for Sebastian Stan, whose Oscar-nominated performance as Donald J. Trump in “The Apprentice” she hardly prepares for the Bravura Physical and Psychological Act, which he pulls out here. Read our review »

The flirt behind “Chicken Shop Date”

Photo by Maisie Cousins ​​for the New Yorker

Photo by Maisie Cousins ​​for the New Yorker

“My character is The same parts desperately and uninterested, ”said Amelia Dimoldenberg, the moderator of the popular YouTube show” Chicken Shop Date “, opposite Rebecca Mead when they met in London. Neither seems to be very charming properties, and yet there is a kind of uncorrected, comedic surreality on the show, which has proven to be permanent: it has been running for more than ten years and almost three million people who can subscribe to the channel. Each episode is said to be a first date, which is set in various, flattering illuminated fast food sockets in the city with the sizzle of the roast oil and the rattling of an active kitchen. And every date – with a celebrity like Andrew Garfield, Ed Sheeran, Keke Palmer or Billie Eilish – is “hopelessly preferred with the longing for permanent love”, Mead writes in one piece about Dimoldenberg for the edition of this week.

As a host, Dimoldenberg is charismatic and disturbing, which puts her guests in the foreground with a dead flirt or a awkward time -controlled pitch and often generates real chemistry. She has not yet found love, but she didn't rule it out. As she says Mead, “I don't know why I couldn't hit anyone on the show – how do we meet us, right?”

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PS Elizabeth Taylorwho was born on this day in 1932, with “a kind of unlikely naturalism and a fantastic disregard for the discipline of action (but not of being),” wrote Hilton as once. Read his piece about the inimitable star »

Hannah Jocelyn contributed to the current edition.