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    A Beautiful Mind (2001)

    What a damp, dull slog A Beautiful Mind is. Based on the life of
    John Nash, a genius mathematician overcome by paranoid
    schizophrenia, Ron Howard’s movie is precious to a fault, despite
    Russell Crowe’s attempts to bring grit and authenticity to the
    role. A Beautiful Mind tries its best to dramatize Nash’s mental
    deterioration, which allows Howard to engage in some paranoid-
    thriller filmmaking, but the sogginess of the inspirational
    storytelling makes this the epitome of the prestige-picture, awards-
    bait drama.

    87.
    Wings (1927)
    The first-ever Best Picture winner — and the only silent film to ever
    win, unless you’re counting The Artist, and you really shouldn’t
    count The Artist. Wings’ flying sequences, revolutionary at the
    time, still hold up today: It was shot on an Air Force base in San
    Antonio, and while it’s not, say, Dunkirk, its realism still gets you.
    The movie itself is still a bit clunky, and the love story a bit
    overheated — it reportedly got Howard Hughes angry just talking
    about it — though if the fact that it’s the first Best Picture winner
    ever didn’t secure its place in film lore, the fact that Gary Cooper
    and Clara Bow had an affair on set certainly would.

    86.
    Dances With Wolves (1990)
    Forever known now as “the movie that beat Goodfellas,” Dances
    With Wolves aches with good intentions. Kevin Costner, practically
    America’s golden child after Bull Durham and Field of Dreams,
    wanted to make a film about the plight of Native Americans, a
    worthy subject. What we got was an overlong Western in which a
    disenfranchised Civil War soldier learns how to feel by hanging out
    with indigenous people. Dances With Wolves was the template for
    so many Oscar contenders — the white man playing the hero for a
    marginalized community — and the best you can say about it now is
    that Costner at least tries to be humble and earnest in his aims. The
    worst you can say is that it begot The Postman — oh, and
    that Goodfellas got robbed.
    85.
    Green Book (2018)
    In the past several years, the Academy has worked hard to expand
    its membership, inviting more women and people of color to give its
    voting body a broader, more inclusive makeup. And while the 91st
    Oscars will be remembered as a ceremony that honored diversity in
    many categories, it will also be forever known as the year
    when Green Book won. A benign salute to tolerance and racial
    unity, the film features a genuinely lovely performance from
    Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley, a deft black pianist who, in the early
    1960s, hires an Italian bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) to be his driver
    and muscle as he does a concert tour across the Deep South. The
    big, goofy sweetness that director and cowriter Peter Farrelly
    reliably provided alongside his brother Bobby in gross-out classics
    like There’s Something About Mary is here wielded as a blunt,
    reassuring instrument, arguing that, no matter our racial divisions,
    we can all learn to get along, apparently while sharing a bucket of
    fried chicken and a hearty chuckle. It’s a nice sentiment but also an
    antiquated, naïve one, and Green Book’s win suggests that, no
    matter how much progress the Academy has made, there remains a
    weakness within the group for the kind of predictable, simplistically
    feel-good pabulum that this movie lays on thickly. You can’t deny
    the sincerity of the filmmakers’ intention, but you sure as hell can
    wonder why they’re so willing to act as if the very real ills they’re
    chronicling are quarantined to a nostalgic past. Green Book is
    based on a true story, but it doesn’t feel very real.

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