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In 2014 I became obsessed with the Oscars. Since then, I rate every Best Picture Nominee from 0-100 and keep the scores in a Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gV8A6Z9s_PLAHB0hyisDXdHR3rrm6ixGCTrxmYhcUyk/edit I wrote about it here . If you don't want to learn everything about me and just want the score, here is how we score movies here: Great Movie, Would Recommend Them To Anyone  = 93-100 You Won't Be Upset You Watched It At All, But I Wouldn't Recommend It To Everybody = 86-92 That Was A Good Movie, But I May Never Think About This Movie Again = 80-85 Eh.... How Did THAT Get Nominated? = 70-79 I'm Pissed Off That I Watched That Whole Movie = 69 and Below Today's movie is Emilia Perez . From Wikipedia: A Mexican lawyer is offered an unusual job to help a notorious cartel boss retire and transition into living as a woman, fulfilling a long-held desire. First off, this is a spoiler review. I will give one paragraph of my quick thoughts with the sco...

For whatever reason in 2014, I became OBSESSED with the Oscars. Since then, I’ve been keeping a Google Sheet with all of my scores of every Oscar Nomination for Best Picture. I watch as many as I can each year, but some years I don’t get to all of them. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gV8A6Z9s_PLAHB0hyisDXdHR3rrm6ixGCTrxmYhcUyk/edit I love looking back at this list. I’m proud of this list. I feel so giddy and excited whenever somebody asks if I have any really good movie recommendations. I pull out my phone and show this list and go through all of my scores right in front of their face and say “Oh that’s a good one… oh shit that’s a good one…” over and over again. People love it. Scoring is 0-100, and I sort of look at it as grades in school. HOWEVER, I went to Catholic School my whole life and I am better than you for it. Some may not know this, but Catholic School’s letter grades are not the same as public schools. Does it make any sense for a Catholic school to do that? Prob...