Summary
It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘Roma’ (starring Yalitza Aparicio) is directed by Alfonso Cuaron and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Aparicio), Best Supporting Actress (Marina de Tavira) Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay and more.
The synopsis:
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:
1. Did we like it?
2. How did everyone look?
3. Will we steal stuff from it?
4. Is it problematic?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | did we like it and how did everyone look all we stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch |
| 0:13.2 | movie reviews |
| 0:15.1 | roma perhaps the favorite for best picture a movie that that looks really good, but is it really good? |
| 0:23.4 | That's the big question. I don't think anybody knows. |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah, it's a movie that definitely appeals to like the film people rather than the movie people. |
| 0:35.5 | People who can't explain why it was good, |
| 0:37.8 | but they're just like, oh, well, if you didn't like it, |
| 0:40.3 | I guess you just didn't get it. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm like, oh, you did get it. |
| 0:43.0 | So what was good about it and they don't have an answer? |
| 0:45.2 | This is definitely one of those movies that people will say that they like to make them seem smart. |
| 0:52.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:53.6 | And they'll for sure thumb their nose at anybody who asks questions. |
| 0:57.5 | Like, so why was it good? |
| 0:59.7 | I guess let's just start there. |
| 1:01.7 | Did we like it out of four points? |
| 1:03.7 | I gave it a 2.7 because points of it were very powerful. |
| 1:10.3 | There was like a half an hour of stretch during this two hour and 15 minute movie, which is a long time, where it was basically between her going to see Fairman at the martial arts thing. |
| 1:28.4 | And from that time until, yes, also shouts out to her super better at karate |
| 1:35.1 | than all those guys who even try to do karate. |
| 1:38.8 | So good for her. |
| 1:40.4 | From then until she delivers the baby, that is like a very, can't take your eyes off it, |
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