Josh Safdie propels a dubious table tennis champion toward compromised glory, Paul Thomas Anderson sends a washed-up revolutionary on a high-stakes mission, and Bi Gan dissolves the boundary between art and reality into a bittersweet exchange.
One Battle After Another is set for some big wins among the major categories, though Sinners could potentially pull off some major upsets.
Everything that the devoted family man of Train Dreams holds dear is a transient heartbeat in the grand scheme of history, and Clint Bentley’s impressionistic lens joins him in tenderly contemplating its slow surrender to time, marrying curatorial precision with a luminous, transcendent spirit.
