Best Picture thoughts, 2024 edition

Last year, I had seen 9 of the 10 nominees for Best Picture when the Oscar nominations were announced. The year before, I had seen 8 of 10. This year, I had only seen 7 of 10, a disappointing trend! But, I actually saw one more that same day, and had plans to see another one the next week, so I don't feel so bad. It took me another couple weeks to get around to seeing the last one, and then another couple weeks to get around to writing up my thoughts on them all, but here we are now!

According to the tradition I started in 2016(!), these are in the order that I saw them:

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