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It’s lights, camera, actionat the ninety-sixth Academy Awards, which just started in Los Angeles. How many Barbenheimer jokes will there be? Could Bradley Cooper finally win an Oscar for “Maestro”? Will Messi, the dog from “Anatomy of a Fall,” make an appearance?Join us at newyorker.comfor live coverage by our reporters and critics—including dispatches from Michael Schulman, who will be inside the Dolby Theatre sharing updates all night long.

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Culture Desk

The Oscars: Who’ll Win, Who Should Win, and Who’s Overdue

More than in most years, the doctrine of dueness has dominated the 2024 awards season.

ByJustin Chang

A still from Martin Scorsese’s film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Front Row

Now That the Oscar Nominations Are in, Here’s What Deserves to Win

This time, for a change, several of the year’s best movies found favor with the Academy.

ByRichard Brody

A top hat with long legs on a beige background.

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The Current Cinema

How “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” Bring Monumental Figures to Life

Christopher Nolan sets the physicist in a swirl of Cold War conspiracy, and Greta Gerwig tries to imbue a story about the doll with a feminist critique of capitalism.

ByAnthony Lane

Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo, illustrated by Agata Nowicka.

The Current Cinema

Grand Appetites and “Poor Things”

In Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, Emma Stone plays a young woman who was created by a scientist, and is forever tasting the world—eating, dancing, travelling, having sex—as if it were freshly made.

ByAnthony Lane

A child facing a dead body in the distance.

The Current Cinema

“Anatomy of a Fall” Is a Magnificently Slippery Thriller

In Justine Triet’s film, starring Sandra Hüller and Samuel Theis, a marriage and a death are subject to the minutest scrutiny.

ByAnthony Lane

A man and woman face each other while the Manhattan skyline is behind them

The Current Cinema

Celine Song’s “Past Lives” Is a Calm but Moving Début

This story of childhood friends from Seoul who reunite as adults in New York is less a love story than a meditation on transplantation and transience.

ByAnthony Lane

The Current Cinema

“The Zone of Interest” Finds Banality in the Evil of Auschwitz

Jonathan Glazer’s film about the family life of the Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss is calmly composed and fiercely controlled.

ByAnthony Lane

Leonard Bernstein in the middle of conducting.

The Current Cinema

“Maestro” Is a Leonard Bernstein Bio-Pic as Restless as Its Subject

Bradley Cooper stars in his own film about the great conductor-composer, but it is Carey Mulligan, as Bernstein’s wife, Felicia, who walks away with the movie.

ByAnthony Lane

The Current Cinema

Dramatic and Moral Ambitions Clash in “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Martin Scorsese’s epic about the Osage murders honors Indigenous suffering, but the action keeps getting pulled back into the orbit of the white, male perpetrators.

ByAnthony Lane