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Oscars
Oscar-Nominated Robot Dreams Is a Gentle Animated Love Story About Dogs, Robots, and 1980s New York
A charming story of love, friendship, and impersonal urban bureaucracy.
Oscar-Winning Everything Everywhere All At Once Celebrates Individualism, Free Will
In a chaotic universe full of infinite realities where all choices are relative, individualism still matters.
Review: Knock at the Cabin and To Leslie
Shyamalan’s latest twist and a most unexpected Oscar nom.
Star-Studded Amsterdam Is a Tedious, Terrible Warning About the Rise of Fascism
A stacked cast and an Oscar-nominated director can't save this flop.
Will Smith and Joe Biden Both Messed Up
Plus, the Reason editors' thoughts on Ketanji Brown Jackson
Be Like Chris Rock
The comedian won last night's Oscars by telling bad jokes, dealing with the consequences, refusing to escalate or apologize, and doing his damn job.
Did Politics Ruin the Oscars?
The Academy Awards are this weekend. Almost no one has even heard of the movies up for Best Picture.
China Censors the Oscars To Block a Hong Kong Protest Film
Documentary short Do Not Split draws the ire of Beijing.
Sex, Communism, Race, and Creative Freedom in Hollywood
Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.
The Oscars' New Diversity Rules Won't Change Who Wins Best Picture
They'll probably do more to lock out indie filmmakers than to advance real inclusion.
DOJ Lawyers Now Want to Be Involved in Oscar Nominations
The Department of Justice is threatening antitrust action if the Academy keeps out streaming services like Netflix.
Kurt Loder Wants Lady Gaga to Win an Oscar: Podcast
Reason's movie reviewer handicaps the Academy Awards and explains why this is the best and worst time to be a consumer of popular culture.
This Year's Oscar Nominees Are Out. The Big Winner? People Who Like Watching Movies At Home
The Best Picture nod for Netflix's Roma marks a major victory for the streaming service.
Forget Lefty Politics: Here's Why the Oscars' Ratings Hit an All-Time Low
The Academy Awards broadcast pulled fewer eyeballs for the same reason movie-ticket sales are down: We have more options. Thank God.
Are 'Inclusion Riders' a Libertarian Solution to Workplace Inequality or P.C. Run Amok?
There's nothing wrong with pushing to work with people you want to work with.
In the Market, Get Out and Dunkirk Won the Race for Best Picture
Get Out grossed more than 56 times its budget. Dunkirk earned the most, by far, of any 2018 Best Picture nominee.
5 Great Libertarian Movies!
These films showcase individualism, innovation, and anti-statism, all while making us laugh and cry.
Kurt Loder on Why the Oscars Always Suck but Movies Are Great: Podcast
Reason's movie reviewer talks about why The Post sucked, why Lady Bird and Get Out rocked, and where #MeToo has gone too far.
Stossel: The Stosscars!
John Stossel picks the best and worst political performances of the year.
Libertarians Should Go See Moonlight
The year's best movie shows the consequences of drug war authoritarianism without lecturing the audience.
Fifty Years After Titicut Follies, Frederick Wiseman Collects an Oscar
Wiseman made the only movie in U.S. history to be banned for reasons other than obscenity or national security.
The Martian is Up for Seven Academy Awards Tonight
We spoke with author Andy Weir in September.
No Matter Who Wins at the Oscars, Taxpayers Lose on Film Subsidies
Big screen and small get big benefits at taxpayer expense.
Shikha Dalmia on the Misplaced Feminist Outrage Against Patricia Arquette
Feminism no longer knows how to help real women with real problems
Feminism's Oppression Obsession Hurts Women
What women need is a broad progressive agenda, not identity politics
Feminists Have No Right to be Pissed Off at Patricia Arquette
She's only playing the identity politics oppression card that they handed her
New York Refuses To Divulge How Much It Subsidizes Specific Movies
Want to know how much of your money paid for Best Picture-winner Birdman? Too bad!
The Elusive Politics of American Sniper
It isn't a hawkish movie, and it isn't conventionally dovish either. But it does have a distinct political perspective.
How Much of That Oscar Statue Did You End Up Paying For?
Governments do their job of propping up the rich
Iran Photoshops Sleeves Onto Michelle Obama's Oscar Gown
Those shoulders too racy for their audiences
Michelle Obama Presented the Best Picture Oscar Because They Watch Movies at the White House All The Time
Argo beat out Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, other films
Oscar Roundup 2013 (Or As They Call It At My House, Purim)
We watch the tedious award show so you don't have to.
Seth MacFarlane Taking Heat Over Oscar Nomination Hitler Joke
Referring to Amour: "The last time Austria and Germany coproduced something, it was Hitler."