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Why Black Panther should win Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars

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With the ninety-first Academy Awards zooming ever closer into vision – albeit still with no host – we’ve asked some of #FilmTwitter‘s top bloggers to explain why their favourite Best Picture nominee should come out on top.
Plain Simple Tom has already spoken up for A Star is Born and you can read Chris’ advocacy of Bohemian Rhapsody here. Now, we present @HCMovieReviews‘ – of hcmoviereviews.wordpress.com – pick: Black Panther!

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Destroyer | Review

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★★★★

A barnstorming twist closes Destroyer, the riveting new film from Girlfight director Karyn Kusama, but this is more intrigue crime drama than compelling thriller. Nicole Kidman leads as haggard antihero Erin Bell, an LAPD officer – with complex history – who could easily warrant a franchise to deliver her own extreme form justice. Staggering around with a potent feline vulnerability, Kidman is unrecognisable in every sense, bar that hers is yet another recognisably stellar performance.

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