Paul Mescal

Before the awards took place, Hollywood’s biggest stars took to the champagne carpet (sorry, red carpet) to show off their outfits from the hottest fashion designers.

“Aftersun” is an attentive, affecting actualization of this acknowledgement of a parent’s liminality. With every frame of her past she pores over, Sophie reaches across space and time in gentle understanding of her father’s own fragile becoming, even while reckoning with the debris he left behind.

With Taylor-Joy’s gazing eyes and sharp wits pounding through the screen, the audience is transported to the front row of her countless intense chess matches. If you ever thought chess was boring, “The Queen’s Gambit” will surely convince you otherwise.

Intimacy, according to “Normal People,” is a living, breathing entity that exists between two people, suspended in a web of vulnerability.