The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced on Jan. 23. Here’s a roundup of the films contending for Best Picture, as covered by The Wall Street Journal’s critics. The term “screwball comedy” is a bit misleading.

This year’s nominees for the Academy’s top prize, Best Picture, have so far grossed a total of $1.7 billion at the global box office, just 60% of what last year’s nominees r

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The 10 Oscar nominees for Best Picture are an eclectic bunch, an interesting mix of stories, genres and styles . This year’s contenders run the gamut, from a three-and-a-half-hour post-World War II saga about a Hungarian architect (”The Brutalist”) and a musical-crime drama hybrid centering on a Mexican cartel boss who undergoes a shocking transformation (“Emilia Pérez”) to