Read Douthat on the Oscars. Over against One Battler After Another and Marty Supreme, Douthat considers Sinners, Bugonia, Eddington, and Weapons:

These are the movies that really get at where our culture is going, I suspect. We are formally committed to seeing Trumpism versus liberalism (whether in Boomer or progressive shape) as the great conflict of the age. But our subtler filmmakers sense a different form of conflict lurking, in which the enemy is something else — the vampire in the dark, the malignant corporation, the nonhuman intelligence, or the devil.