The Brutalist, for all its idiosyncrasies, was a fairly conventional Oscar player—a classically structured paean to a great man.
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Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
1 Sep. 2025
Witkoff, a real-estate lawyer by training whose apprenticeship in diplomacy has so far produced neither peace in Gaza nor an end to the war in Ukraine, offered a rousing paean to the boss.
Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
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Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
More than a century later, jazz pianist and composer Bobby West gives her what she was denied: a requiem.
There’s nothing shiny and new to get excited about and so the apathy and dirge hasn’t been replaced.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.
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