Vikram Murthi is a Brooklyn-based critic and a contributing writer to The Nation. He also edits Downtime Magazine and his freelance work has appeared in Filmmaker Magazine, Reverse Shot, Criterion, Vulture and sundry other publications.
The Academy Awards felt like a hyperactive fever dream, but really it was just a terribly engineered event that reeked of neediness and obsolescence and that was given its sole moment of excitement by an act of unscripted violence.