The Oscars' best picture is a great milestone in search of a great movie https://t.co/7DOLynTizI For those who cheered the best-picture win and those who were baffled by it, here's an analysis that's wise and enjoyable in equal measure..

Tom Luddy was the soul of the Telluride Film Festival, and a cherished friend and guide. I treasure the documentaries and features he'd send me between festivals, films--often French--that he knew I didn't know, and that would give me pleasure and expand my education.

Lacking a soul of his own, Netanyahu has chosen to sell the soul of the nation he swore to serve.

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Watching the lunacy on the floor of the House, my eyes glaze over but my mind drifts back to the mid-1970s and Chevy Chase, during the first season of NBC's "Saturday Night," announcing repeatedly that "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

In addition to the great news that Damar Hamlin has begun to recover, there’s the welcome example of the emergency care he received. At a time of rampant dysfunction and systemic failure in public life, a fully funded, elaborately trained response system functioned brilliantly.

Oh, it’s so funny-and apt-that you found this! Lovely to schmooze away the miles with you last night.

With "The Music Man" again on Broadway, could Harold Hill's Think System of musical training--you just think the melody rather than bother with instruments--have been the inspiration for Donald Trump's system of declassifying documents?

‘The Contractor’ is fully worthy of last Sunday's Oscarcast. My review. full https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-contractor-chris-pine-kiefer-sutherland-ben-foster-nina-hoss-tarik-saleh-d-p-dann-11648762535?st=qyk5963bmzsv4ui&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

"After Yang" is poetic in the strictest sense--densely compressed, containing something deep as well as beautiful. My review.//www.wsj.com/articles/after-yang-kogonada-justin-h-min-malea-emma-tjandrawidjaja-11646349825?st=hqgdlc8cs9mqa90&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

Just because "The Batman" is super-serious doesn't mean it deserves to be taken seriously. But it does, and that's what I do in my review. https://t.co/0abQ35l2AQ via @WSJ

“Cyrano,” with Peter Dinklage, has much to recommend it, but the songs on the soundtrack are an absolute earsore. My review. https://t.co/JaCo5lTN5d via @WSJ

One sublime performance is reason enough to see "The Worst Person In the World, " but this enchanting film from Norway has two of them. My review. https://t.co/m5ERRSTJyu via @WSJ

The moon falls out of orbit in "Moonfall." What befalls the audience is another story. My review. https://t.co/ClnVqNCxiK via @WSJ

‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: A pair of train passengers form an unlikely bond during a long-haul trip to the Russian port city of Murmansk https://t.co/KGECn8JKSB via @WSJ

The beauty of "Compartment No. 6" is difficult to pin down and all but impossible to forget. Looking forward to seeing it again. Here's my review https://t.co/KGECn90NUB via @WSJ

I know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but it isn't my fault that they revived this corpse of a costume fantasy after it spent 8 years on the shelf. https://t.co/1l359aiyZ3 via @WSJ

Sometimes the most surprising--and endearing--movies come out of nowhere. This is one of them. (Actually it came from Bhutan.) https://t.co/cpEcTtRHu8 via @WSJ

We were colleagues and sometimes pagemates for 17 years, but we lived on opposite sides of the country and never met. I loved reading him, though, and I'm stunned and saddened that our paper has lost such a strong, joyous voice. https://t.co/7RByFt4ete via @WSJ

Wouldn’t have thought Asghar Farhadi could ever match the brilliance of “A Separation,” but I hadn’t seen “A Hero.” Now I have and here’s my review. https://t.co/CzUo1XDRzZ via @WSJ