Wesley Morris ties all the 2025 Oscar Best Picture Nominees with a common thread: they’re each uniquely weird.
They’re weird — every single one. They take weird forms. The people in them do weird stuff. They induce weirdness in you.
I’ve seen 9 out of 10 of the nominees (still waiting for I’m Still Here to be available), and my vote would either be Conclave or Anora. Each contains beautifully composed cinematography for their respective stories with casts that held my attention the entire time. But they’re vastly different. Conclave runs along as a tense thriller, while Anora is a fable with a Three Stooges episode in the middle.
And regarding Wicked, I texted two friends:
begrudgingly and surprisingly enjoying it. It’s like skittles in movie musical form