Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - not a good movie.

Lady Bird - a really great movie.

As far as my Oscar picks go, I’m pulling for Get Out, Phantom Thread and Lady Bird. I liked The Shape of Water and Dunkirk too, but they’re decidedly second-tier. Phantom Thread was probably my personal favorite, but I think Get Out is definitely the most important film of the year and the one people are going to still be talking about the most twenty years from now. As for Lady Bird, it was beautifully done and hit my early-2000s-Catholic-school feelings hard. I’ve been a big fan of Greta Gerwig for a while now and would love to see her get some recognition for this.

Three Billboards is the only one I saw that I didn’t like. It was very well crafted and full of legitimately Oscar-worthy performances, but I just found the screenplay to be preposterous.

I didn’t see The Post, Call Me By Your Name, or Darkest Hour.