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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Private Life by #TamaraJenkins starring #KathrynHahn, #PaulGiamatti and #MollyShannon

BEST ACTOR 2015: The funniest thing about people screaming about LEONARDO DiCAPRIO "finally" winning an Oscar is that I don't recall him ever being lauded as a great actor. Pre-pubescent teen sex symbol, yes, and enviable movie star who got his pick of the best projects, definitely, but did we all watch him running his hands through his hair in Romeo and Juliet and think "EGADS, the new Olivier doesn't have an Oscar?" DiCaprio's biggest appeal is actually that he behaves like a professional while also never seeming to take himself too seriously, choosing films that are more than just star vehicles and then showing up at awards shows with clean hair and a slick suit (do you hear me, Jared Leto?). His finally winning for freezing his nips off through three hours of THE REVENANT isn't a problem for me, I just think it says a lot about the narratives we like to create around celebrities about what they deserve that are actually based in their success in the marketplace and not what they're actually good at (sorry Frances McDormand, but until tickets are free, those inclusion riders aren't going to become standard). DiCaprio had been nominated four times before, and for the first time wasn't up against an odds-on favourite, in fact his competition this time was downright uninspiring: Bryan Cranston humping his one note as Dalton Trumbo, Michael Fassbender doing a serviceable Steve Jobs with Aaron Sorkin's masturbatory dialogue, returning champ Eddie Redmayne as Claire Danes in The Danish Girl, and Matt Damon proving how far he has to go to be the hottest guy on Grindr in The Martian. Aside from the aspects of the job that were overly publicized about DiCaprio's performance (eating raw meat, getting ass-rammed by a bear), it actually is his deepest and most affecting performance, the whole saga hangs off the one moment where he shows us how much he loves his kid, and he does it with such intense conviction that we're hooked in to the story until the bitter, blood in the snow ending. He was previously nominated for What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2015) and for Best Picture for producing

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Transit by #ChristianPetzold starring #FranzRogowski and #PaulaBeer

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