Josh Safdie propels a dubious table tennis champion toward compromised glory, Paul Thomas Anderson sends a washed-up revolutionary on a high-stakes mission, and Bi Gan dissolves the boundary between art and reality into a bittersweet exchange.
One Battle After Another is set for some big wins among the major categories, though Sinners could potentially pull off some major upsets.
Through operatic mythologising and cinematic splendour, Guillermo del Toro magnificently elevates Frankenstein into a rueful, elegiac meditation on kinship, condemning both father and son to the same corrosive cycles of paternal cruelty, maternal absence, and a hunger for love that no creation can satisfy.
