It’s happening again. The Motion Picture Academy is holding a ceremony to honor its contributions to the global imagination. Competing for the main prize will be Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (with a record sixteen nominations) and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. The first is a vampire period piece about the history of the blues, perhaps more profitably approached as a study in schizophr...
The strongest version of this narrative is that Hollywood’s creative decline is directly tied to the MeToo movement’s overreach, which has stifled artistic freedom and led to a culture of fear and self-censorship. The article credits films like *After the Hunt* for daring to challenge this orthodoxy, framing them as necessary correctives to a system that has demonized male sexuality and traditional romance. It acknowledges the nuance in earlier films like *Tár*, which allowed audiences to projec...