This year's Academy Award nominees have been scrutinized for lacking in diversity and for not showing support to other races and cultures. Nevertheless the nominees this year for Best Actress show a range of performances from diverse films.
"Brooklyn" will make you cry. It is the kind of movie filled with melancholy that anyone leaving home can fully understand. It is a movie about the passage into full-blown adulthood and the coming to terms with one's identity. There might some disappointments in the film, but they are microscopic compared to the glorious acting and filmmaking on display.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s latest film, might be perfect, according to critics. Brightly colored, characters fitted with a lover’s agenda, Tilda Swinton aged forty years with makeup, and an all-star cast that draws together “every actor you've ever liked,” has commentators praising the film simply from its two minute and twenty-six second trailer.
