In 2005, it was “Crash.” This year, the entrant is “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The movie won four Golden Globes, including best drama, making it a contentious Oscar favorite (the nominations come our way Jan. Last year, that movie was “La La Land.” Two years before that, it was arguably - suddenly - “American Sniper” (winner of nothing especially big, but big in the meaning we ascribed it). And the more love the prize givers throw at it, the more some people want to throw themselves off a cliff. In its own accidental way, it does seem to be saying something about, you know, now. Nonetheless, the movie is even kind of a hit. It gets a bunch of nominations and wins some big prizes, occasionally the biggest ones, and most of the time, people - moviegoers, moviemakers, movie critics - will say they didn’t see it coming, that the enthusiasm for this movie doesn’t make any sense, that the praise being slathered insults how good about a dozen other movies actually are. Sometimes, a movie comes along that appears to take the H.O.V.
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