Two or three decades ago, a tasteful big-hit tearjerker like “Wonder” would have been a shoo-in, and when the honors went to movies that were true works of art, like “The Godfather” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” or “The Silence of the Lambs” or “Schindler’s List,” you’d better believe that they were movies enjoyed by gargantuan audiences.Īll of that is now changing. The Academy Awards, for most of their existence, used to be all about hitting the middlebrow sweet spot. We’ve seen this reflected, quite strikingly, by a subtle chemical change in the kinds of films that now dominate the awards season. Yet a lot of people might say, “Get over it.” More than ever, there’s a casual acceptance among moviegoers of the division between popularity and acclaim: between the mainstream and the art-stream. When you ponder the landscape of cinema as it exists today, it can feel as if a movie like “Get Out” or “Dunkirk,” and - indeed - the holy trinity of popularity, acclaim, and relevance, which used to go such a long way toward defining movies as an art form, now lines up about as often as an eclipse. ![]() ![]() Yet let’s just come out and acknowledge that this sort of thing now happens with dramatically less frequency than it used to.
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