President Joe Biden had another successful week. He managed to stay alive and out of the hospital as he prepares to officially launch his campaign for reelection next month. Alas, he also struggled to conceal his rapidly declining cognitive health.

The 80-year-old commander in chief attempted to locate a man named “Doug,” but was not successful. We hope Doug is still alive, unlike Jackie. He continued to bungle his numbers, heralded the arrival of “artificial intelivance” technology, and shouted incoherently in the fashion of a demented geezer.

Biden pledged to deliver tanks and “viting vehicles” to “help counter Ukraine’s brutal aggression,” while praising the efforts of his secretary of state (Tony Blinken) and “secretary of the … of the, uh … of … of … the military” (Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin). As mentioned in last week’s compilation, Biden often struggles to remember the names of his black colleagues.

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A progressive billionaire-funded network of Democratic propaganda sites masquerading as legitimate news websites is leading the push to keep former president Donald Trump off Facebook and Twitter.

Courier Newsroom, which bills itself as the “largest left-leaning news network in the country,” organized a petition this week to pressure Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Elon Musk to keep Trump off their platforms. Facebook said Thursday it would reinstate Trump “in the coming weeks.” Twitter reinstated Trump in November, but the former president has not posted on the site. Both sites banned him in January 2021, under pressure from Democratic lawmakers and liberal advocacy groups.

“We cannot allow him to rejoin these platforms and spread more hateful, inaccurate information. Sign the petition now to keep Trump off of Facebook and Twitter,” Courier’s petition says. Blue Amp Action, a Democratic consulting firm, circulated the petition in an email to Courier supporters. The consulting firm has worked for a number of Democratic campaigns. President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign paid Blue Amp Action around $230,000 for media production services in 2020.

Maintaining a ban on Trump could help Democrats in 2024 by depriving the early GOP favorite of access to two of the country’s biggest media platforms. And that aligns with the political goals of Courier Newsroom’s biggest backers.

Laurene Powell Jobs, who inherited $20 billion from her late husband, Apple founder Steve Jobs, was a major funder of ACRONYM, the digital media company behind Courier Newsroom, the Washington Free Beacon reported. While the exact nature of Powell Jobs’s ties to ACRONYM and Courier Newsroom are unclear, she is not the only progressive megadonor propping up the group.

In October 2021, the progressive billionaire George Soros and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman formed an organization called Good Information, Inc. The group acquired Courier Newsroom, which operates websites designed to look like legitimate local news publications. Soros, the Democratic party’s biggest donor, gave $1.2 million to Courier Newsroom through his Open Society Foundations in 2021 to support the group’s “non-partisan journalism.”

While Courier Newsroom aims to root out political disinformation online, Hoffman has funded multiple projects that used disinformation to help elect Democrats. In 2017, he funded a project in which tech firms created fake social media personas in order to suppress Republican voter turnout in Alabama’s 2017 special Senate election.

Other Soros-funded advocacy groups have pressured Facebook to maintain its ban on Trump.

Media Matters for America, which received $500,000 in Soros cash in 2021, partnered with Accountable Tech to form the “Keep Trump Off Facebook” campaign. MoveOn.org, one of the largest progressive groups in the country, has purchased ads on Facebook to circulate a petition to keep Trump off the platform. Soros donated $450,000 to MoveOn in 2021.

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North Korea on Saturday denounced U.S. pledges of battle tanks to Ukraine, claiming Washington was “further crossing the red line” to win hegemony by proxy war, state media KCNA reported.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, made the remarks in a statement carried by KCNA, saying that North Korea will “stand in the same trench” as Russia against the United States.

The United States said this week it would supply Ukraine with 31 of its most advanced battle tanks after Germany made a similar announcement. This scrapped a taboo in Western support for Ukraine’s battle against Russia’s invasion by pledging arms that have a mainly offensive purpose.

“I express serious concern over the U.S. escalating the war situation by providing Ukraine with military hardware for ground offensive,” Kim Yo Jong said in the statement.

The United States and Western countries “have neither right nor justification to slander sovereign states’ exercise of the right to self-defence.”

Nuclear-armed North Korea launched an unprecedented number of missiles last year, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. U.S. and South Korean officials have also warned the North could be preparing for its first test of a nuclear device since 2017.

At least some of the officers involved in the traffic stop that authorities say resulted in the beating and death of Tyre Nichols were part of a specialized Memphis policing unit called SCORPION.

Under pressure over rising violent crime, Memphis in October 2021 created SCORPION, which stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in our Neighborhoods. Its mandate is to stem homicides, assaults and robberies.

How is SCORPION connected to the Nichols case?

Because at least some of the officers belonged to SCORPION, questions have arisen over whether they were acting as part of the unit when they encountered Nichols.

More broadly, the case has drawn attention to Memphis’ specialized units and elite police teams in general. Critics say these types of task forces often use aggressive tactics, operate without adequate oversight and harass communities of color.

Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died in the hospital three days after a violent Jan. 7 encounter with the five Black officers who initially stopped his vehicle for a traffic violation.

The five officers have since been charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression and fired from their jobs.

What is the SCORPION unit?

Memphis officials have said the unit comprises about 40 officers in four teams concentrating on crime hot spots. Each team has members focused on car theft, gang investigations and “crime suppression,” Mayor Jim Strickland said in a speech in January 2022.

A 2021 video about the unit’s launch showed several dozen officers, mostly men, going through roll call before heading on patrols. Some wore plain clothes and drove unmarked cars.

In its first few months of existence, between October 2021 and Jan. 23, 2022, SCORPION made 566 arrests. Of those, 390 were felony arrests, according to Strickland. Officers seized tens of thousands of dollars and over 250 weapons, the mayor said.

What is the criticism of SCORPION?

The Nichols case has raised concerns that the unit strayed from its core mission, had inadequate oversight and used tactics that increased the risk of violence.

Lawyers for the family have called on the police department to disband SCORPION. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said such units can turn into “a pack of wolves.”

He pointed out that Nichols’ encounter with police began with a traffic stop, which does not fall under the unit’s mandate to address violent crime. Critics say such stops are excuses to search for weapons or drugs and can escalate into violence.

Crump also highlighted that another Black male in Memphis said he was the victim of “excessive force” by SCORPION officers just a few days before Nichols’ death.

Is the unit under review?

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis this week announced a review of all of the police department’s specialized units including SCORPION in response to Nichols’ death. She called the incident “heinous, reckless and inhumane.”

The department did not immediately respond to questions about SCORPION’S status, past complaints against the unit and whether all five officers were assigned to it.

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Soon enough, most adults must reckon with their parents’ physical and mental vulnerabilities, and it’s always a blow. Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicately shaded One Fine Morning deals with the wrenchingly mundane nature of caring for those who used to take care of us. But it’s also about the difficulty—and the necessity—of tending to our own emotional lives even as we’re looking after others. That sounds so simple, you might not think it’s enough to fill a whole movie. Yet the end of One Fine Morning imparts a sense of life spilling over, the way its strange, radiant richness is often too much to analyze in the moment. This is a big movie served up in a surprisingly small, intimate package.

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Léa Seydoux is Sandra, a translator living in Paris with her 8-year-old daughter Linn (Camille Leban Martins). Her husband has been dead for several years; she’s so devoted to her daughter and her work that she hasn’t given any thought to finding someone new. She runs into an old friend, Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a scientist, and after a pleasant, platonic dinner, he quizzes her about the state of things. “I just feel my love life is behind me,” she answers. Clément is married, with a child of his own, and he’s not trying to put the moves on Sandra, at least not yet. But he gives her a look that can barely be summed up in words—not pity, but a sad acknowledgment of another human’s lost opportunity. Before long, the two of them have tumbled into an illicit romance, and something inside Sandra kicks back to life.

But this sudden happiness is just a sidenote. Sandra’s father Georg (Pascal Greggory) suffers from a neuro-degenerative disease that has already robbed him of his sight and is now, increasingly, blurring his mind. A former philosophy professor whose life has always revolved around reading, he now spends his days alone in his book-lined apartment, a thirsty man surrounded by water he can’t drink. You also get the sense that he has always been a little remote as a father to begin with, but that doesn’t lessen the severity of the crisis when it’s determined that he can no longer live on his own. Sandra finds herself in the position of struggling to do the right thing by a father who, almost literally, now looks right through her.

Sandra herself seems to be in a bit of a nowhere zone, a place of transition she can’t seem to fight her way out of. Hansen-Løve’s best movies—Father of My Children, Eden—are quiet but sturdy reflections on people stuck in between, people who don’t seem to realize, or have forgotten, that the in-between is really all there is. One Fine Morning is in a league with these pictures, and Seydoux, with her watchful eyes and cautious smile, is perfect as a woman who once knew her way but has somehow lost it.

Late in the film, as Sandra goes about divesting Georg’s beloved library, giving much of it away to an adoring former student, she remarks that she feels closer to her father with his books than she does when she’s physically with him: “There, is his bodily envelope. Here, his soul.” In this movie about how the best times in our lives are sometimes entwined with the worst, that state of uneasy grace is as close as you can get to a happy ending.

The world of beauty influencing has evolved. There was a time when it was a wholesome online environment where creators would post makeup tutorials, reviews, and recommendations. Now, it’s one of the most drama-filled communities online. Even those who try to stay away from the drama altogether are not immune. The latest example: the TikToker Mikayla Nogueira. Earlier this week, the 24-year-old beauty influencer uploaded a video reviewing a mascara. Soon after, she faced a tidal wave of backlash online as people accused her of wearing fake lashes to amplify the mascara’s effects, thereby providing inauthentic advice.

In the video, Noguiera stitches another creator’s video and records herself with the L’Oreal Telescopic Life mascara on one eye, saying, “This literally just changed my life. This looks like false lashes—” before stopping herself and saying, “How? What?” The words “L’Oreal Paris Partner” flash on the screen in the bottom left corner before disappearing, and she demonstrates how to use the product. “I’m speechless, and I’m not sure anyone is ever going to be able to compete with this product,” she says at the end of the video.

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THESE ARE THE LASHES OF MY DREAMS!! @lorealparisusa never lets me down 😭 #TelescopicLift #LorealParisPartner #LorealParis @zoehonsinger

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Then came the comments. “Girl, did you add falsies at the end?” one person commented. “We can see the length in the outer corner.” Nogueira assured her followers that she did not, writing back in the comments section, “Nooo, just three/four coats and my tight liner.” In response to another comment about the false lashes, she wrote, “Nooo omg L’Oreal would never allow that in a partnered post!!! But y’all are proving my point.” Within three days, the video has boomed in popularity and received over 24.6 million views as debates over its authenticity continue.

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Representatives for Nogueira did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

A popular beauty YouTuber named Alissa Ashley posted a video on TikTok explaining what she saw as the main problem with Nogueira’s review (based on the unconfirmed assumption that the latter was wearing false lashes). “When you have such a big platform, and you decide to use it to put a fabricated review up, that’s not OK,” Ashley says in the video. She goes on to say that this affects not only Nogueira’s content but the beauty community as a whole because it further validates people’s skepticism when it comes to beauty influencers reviewing products.

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no hate its just super disappointing because as ‘influencers’ people are putting their trust in us and this isnt cool #mikaylanogueira

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Videos with the hashtag #MikaylaNogueiradrama have accumulated over 10.5 million views, and Nogueira has faced a barrage of criticism. Thus far, she has not responded other than in her initial responses to comments on TikTok. Aside from the drama over the lashes themselves, there is also a chance that the influencer could face a fine from the Federal Trade Commission for failing to include the usual “Paid Partnership” icon at the bottom of the video like sponsored content usually does. The FTC’s Truth in Advertising policies require content creators to disclose when they have “a material connection” with a brand. This includes “a personal, family, or employment relationship or a financial relationship – such as the brand paying you or giving you free or discounted products or services.” The policy also requires that if the creator is making an endorsement in a video, they must put the disclosure in the video, which Nogueira did, by putting “L’Oreal Paris Partner” on the screen briefly and in a hashtag.

Other beauty influencers, including Bretman Rock and Kirsten Titus, have made videos using the same product as Nogueira and given it favorable reviews. They used the same hashtags and put “L’Oreal Paris Partner” in their videos. Reactions to their videos continued to stoke drama, as users pointed out that their results were much less dramatic than Nogueira’s when they compared the videos. Embattled creators like James Charles (who admitted to and later apologized for messaging and soliciting nude pictures from minors) and Jeffree Star (who was the subject of an Insider exposé and faced allegations of bullying, sexual assault, and violence) used the opportunity to do their own product reviews of the mascara.

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We have yet to see where this particular drama will land when it comes to the mascara review’s authenticity. But regardless of the outcome, the fallout serves as an example of the shift the beauty world has seen since many of its stars betrayed their followers’ trust. In one particularly notorious example, the case of YouTuber Jaclyn Hill’s messy lipstick launch, customers alleged to have found hair and mold in their products, leading many today to be primed to sniff out the first scent of an influencer leading them astray. And this kind of mistrust extends beyond the beauty community; last month, an “ancestral lifestyle” influencer called The Liver King faced a backlash when he admitted to taking steroids, in addition to his raw meat diet, to shape his physique.

When it comes to Noguiera’s future, one must look only to previous subjects of controversy. Although many creators in the beauty community have had their own dramas, spats, and controversies, they’ve largely made it through to the other side and maintained a platform. Whether that means going radio-silent after posting a heartfelt apology on their Notes app or a customary apology YouTube video, or just continuing to post through it, it’s hard to squander a platform of millions. At the end of the day, controversy or not, the real winner here is the brand that commissioned the sponsored post.

The days of family channels being the internet’s ideal family arrangement are behind us. Instead, apps like TikTok are making room for DINKS, an acronym for households with double incomes, and no kids.

DINK videos, which have over 33 million views on TikTok, showcase the lifestyle of kid-free married couples– from traveling the world, to parenting pets, to spending $100 on candy, because why not? Kate Anderson, known as @engelthang on TikTok, gained nearly 100,000 followers from posting “dink vlogs”— videos that show her and her husband’s day-to-day life. One of her most popular videos is a date-night run to Costco. “We don’t have kids to feed, but we’ve got lots of money to spend on goodies,” she says in a video with more than 1.5 million likes.

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Anderson, a 30-year-old newlywed based in Minnesota, makes content for other couples that feel pressure to have kids after marriage. “There’s not a lot of discussion for other lifestyle choices available for couples who are newlyweds,” she says. “I was really surprised at how aspirational some people found it. They’ll tell me, ‘Yeah, that’s my dream life.’”

While this may be another case of the vertical-video app rewarding relatability, it’s also a direct reflection of the reality for many adults. Fertility rates have been declining in the U.S. for more than a decade and there is a growing share of adults in the U.S. that don’t plan to have children, according to a 2021 Pew Research study.

But as much as Gen-Zers and millennials are embracing the word “DINKs,” they didn’t come up with the term. Boomers have been using it for decades, as noted in the 1987 TIME article ‘Living: Here Come the DINKs.’ The piece points to the cost of raising a child to age 18 as almost $100,000 at the time. That number is now closer to $310,000, according to Brookings Institution analysis of data from the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Jadyn Bryden, who is 23 years old and a venture capital investor, first heard the term DINK when she was younger and admittedly couldn’t imagine what that life-choice as an adult would look like. Now, she and her husband are self-proclaimed DINKs, living in Boston together, where they’re bringing in two incomes and have yet to have children. The choice is a financially smart one, she says.

Bryden and her husband haven’t decided to splurge on expensive bags or luxurious trips with their sizable dual incomes. Instead, they’ve decided to live off of one income, and completely save and invest the other. “Having dual income and no kids is the perfect opportunity to use your discretionary income to save or invest,” says Bryden. By living off of one income, the couple has been able to save for their wedding, build their retirement and savings accounts and work towards funding future rental properties. Her advice for other DINKs is to follow suit if they can.

But just because Bryden doesn’t have kids now, doesn’t mean she doesn’t want them in the future. In fact, her choice to have dual incomes and no kids at the moment, is preparing her for when she does have kids. “DINK status is not necessarily always a long term thing,” she says. “We’re using this time as an opportunity to put together a strong financial foundation so we won’t have to struggle in the future.”

Although these households may have more disposable income, DINKs aren’t fully exempt from financial planning. Some realities to consider are that there are fewer deductions when filing taxes with no children and you may have to look into who will receive your potential assets, according to advisory firm Mariner Wealth Advisors.

Anderson explains to her followers that budgeting is just as necessary for married couples without kids as it is with. “Yes, even DINKs budget sometimes,” she says in videos detailing their choice to save towards house remodeling and landscaping.

“I would love to help normalize this type of relationship,” she says in another. Anderson has received some messages from parents defending their ability to still do similar things with children. “I never want to make content that makes parents feel bad for having kids,” she says. “There’s nothing wrong with having children and I don’t think the lifestyle of a DINK is superior. People should be open to picking the lifestyle they want.”

Many viewers are getting this content on their ForYouPage and responding positively, vocalizing their hopes to mimic the lifestyle for themselves. “The little DINKS (dual income, no kids) trend on TikTok is how I aspire to be,” writes one on Twitter. “I always thought I would want kids eventually, later in my life, but ever since I saw a TikTok of a DINK couple I’m starting to think that’s more the life for me. Why do I let TikTok invade my thoughts like this,” writes another.

The hashtags don’t stop there. Another one getting traction on TikTok is DINKWAD, meaning double income, no kids, with a dog. The hashtag, with 3 million cumulative views, celebrates couples who have instead invested their paternal instincts towards their pets. “That’s what I want,” says one person in a viral video with nearly 4 million views “I want to be a DINKWAD and I don’t care how stupid it sounds. At least I have no kids and a dog.”

Gary Rome, Owner of Gary Rome Hyundai in Holyoke, MA, Wins 54th Annual Award at 106th National Automotive Dealers Association Show

(Dallas, TX, January 27, 2023) – Today, Gary Rome, owner of Gary Rome Hyundai in Holyoke, MA, was announced as the 2023 TIME Dealer of the Year by leaders from TIME and Ally Financial at the 106th National Automobile Dealers Association Show.

Now in its 54th year, the TIME Dealer of the Year award is one of the auto industry’s most prestigious and highly coveted honors. Rome is recognized for his credo of treating both employees and clients like family and his commitment to embracing new technologies that will move the industry forward. His state-of-the-art Hyundai store is fueled by a solar field that he owns, and he has increased investment in EV infrastructure and inventory – he was the first dealer in the U.S. to deliver an electric vehicle from Hyundai, and his electric vehicle (EV) sales are up 38% over last year.

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Jessica Sibley, CEO of TIME and Doug Timmerman, President of Ally Auto, announced Rome as the winner at a ceremony that honored all 48 nominees. Rome was chosen from a field of more than 16,000 franchised dealers across the country.

“For over 50 years, TIME has recognized the impact of automotive dealers on their communities with the TIME Dealer of the Year award,” said Sibley. “We are proud to continue the legacy of honoring these works of service with our partners at Ally.”

“As the auto industry continues to evolve, it is imperative that auto dealers continue to embrace new technologies that will move the industry forward,” said Timmerman. “Year after year, we see these auto dealers go above and beyond for their customers, communities, and employees – and TIME Dealer of the Year nominees are more than deserving of this special recognition.”

The TIME Dealer of the Year is chosen by a panel composed of faculty from the Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan, which selects one finalist from each of the four NADA regions, and, ultimately, a national winner.

In addition to Rome, the 2023 TIME Dealer of the Year finalists include:

• Mark Brickey, Sand Mountain Toyota, Albertville, Ala.
• Bruce Daniels, Honda Marysville, Marysville, Ohio
• Tim Hutcherson, Downey Nissan, Downey, Calif.

As the exclusive sponsor of the TIME Dealer of the Year program for the 12th year in a row, Ally will provide grants to eligible 501c3 charitable organizations selected by the nominees, finalists, and winner. For more than a decade, Ally has made donations in connection with the program, totaling nearly $1 million. This year, Ally will give $10,000 to the charity of Rome’s choice and $5,000 to each of the nonprofit organizations selected by the three finalists. In recognition of their achievements, Ally also will give $1,000 to the charities of choice for each of the 48 nominees.

For more information on the nominees, finalists, and winner, please visit: https://www.ally.com/go/allydealerheroes/nominees.

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The annual NADA Show brings together more than 20,000 franchised dealers and their employees, industry leaders, manufacturers, and exhibitors to learn about the latest auto industry tools, trends, products and technologies.

Among filmmakers, Nicole Holofcener is the great poet of microannoyances. She’s attuned to those little things that bother you about people, aggravations so splinterlike you can’t quite explain why they bug you so much. She also understands that the best qualities of humans often dovetail with the very things that drive you crazy about them, even—or maybe especially—within a marriage. That idea is the foundation of Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings, which made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, a movie about neurotic New Yorkers—is there any other kind?—just trying to get along with one another, even when they’re barely speaking to each other. It’s the sort of prickly, sweet-and-sour little comedy for and about adults that so few filmmakers make anymore.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is Beth, a writer with a reasonably well-received memoir under her belt and a teaching gig at the New School. She has recently turned in another book, a novel this time, and she hasn’t heard back from her agent. Fretfully, she asks her psychiatrist husband Don (Tobias Menzies) if that means her agent doesn’t like the book. He reassures her that that couldn’t possibly be the case, and reaffirms how wonderful he thinks the book is—though later, she overhears a conversation in which he confides that he just doesn’t think it’s as good as her memoir. That this highly dramatic event—for Beth, at least—occurs near the sock wall at Paragon Sports is just one of those characteristically picaresque Holofcener touches.

Beth’s sister, Sarah (Michaela Watkins), tries to calm her, assuring her that Don couldn’t possibly have meant what he said—or maybe he sort of did, but that’s not the end of the world either. Yet as Beth nurses her hurt feelings and muted anger, everyone around her vibrates with their own anxieties: Sarah, an interior decorator, is dealing with a persnickety client who wrinkles her nose at every single classy light fixture she hauls in. (At one point she growls, “I hate people. I don’t want to decorate their houses anymore.”) Sarah’s partner Mark (Arian Moayed)—the one to whom Don confessed his true feelings about his wife’s book—is a not particularly successful actor who’s just landed a part he’s not sure he can pull off. And Don is fumbling his practice: he mixes up one patient’s history with another; a married couple he’s been treating for years (played by David Cross and Amber Tamblyn) do nothing but fume at one another in his presence, until they join forces and turn against him.

Jeong Park/A24Tobias Menzies and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

I’ve always wondered if that sometimes happens to couples counselors; apparently, Holofcener has too. You Hurt My Feelings is a story about moderately happy people, pretty good at holding everything together, until they hit a speed bump, a crisis revolving around the risks of honesty. Early in the movie Beth and Don’s just-out-of-college son, Eliot (Owen Teague), an only child, watches as his parents split a salad during a park picnic. Do they share everything? he asks in exasperation, a question that’s a tell: this is one of those marriages so tight that the child feels like a third wheel.

That’s just one of the movie’s many lived-in details. It was also a stroke of genius to cast the enchantingly dry Jeannie Berlin as Sarah and Beth’s mother, the type of woman who donates a blouse to charity only to later try to get it back. And Beth and Don’s apartment, even though they’re clearly well-paid, well-educated professionals, is realistically New York-scaled—which is to say, it’s small. They have shelves full of books, and they’ve floated their small couch in front of them, something you almost never see in movies or even in design magazines—one of those little tricks of desperate ingenuity that help maximize limited space.

There’s also the way Beth professes delight as she opens an anniversary gift from Don that she clearly doesn’t like much, a pair of leaf-shaped earrings. “They’re leaves!” he announces brightly, outing himself as the kind of husband who has no idea what to buy his wife, no matter how close they are. She’s not so great at choosing for him, either. But in Holofcener’s world, even bad presents can ultimately bring people together. Looking back at You Hurt My Feelings, I marvel that there’s even enough there there to hold a whole movie together—the film is zephyrlike in its examination of sudden marital discord and overall annoyance with everybody on the planet. But somehow it works. As a story about how New Yorkers get by, making marriages and family relationships work in one of the toughest cities of the world, it’s both smart and entertaining. And if nothing else, the floating-couch trick comes free.

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Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick.

Paramount Pictures

• Ten movies are up for Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards.
• A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” leads with 11 nominations.
• You can stream most of the nominees right now on services like HBO Max, Peacock, and Paramount Plus.

The 95th annual Academy Awards will be held on March 12 at 8 p.m. ET, and will be broadcast live on ABC. The 2023 show will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, marking the comedian’s third time presenting the event.

Ten movies are nominated for best picture this year, including a record number of sequels with “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick” both up for the top award. Nominees also include biopics like “Elvis” and the semi-autobiographical film “The Fabelmans,” adaptations like “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and dark comedies like “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Triangle of Sadness.”

A24’s genre-defying “Everything Everywhere All at Once” comes in on top with 11 total Oscar nominations, including four acting nods for first-time nominees. With “Avatar: The Way of Water,” director James Cameron has managed to secure best picture nominations for his last three consecutive films.

If you’re looking to watch all the best picture nominees before the ceremony airs, you’re in luck. While not every nominee is available to stream just yet, all but two can be watched online right now. Below, we rounded up all 10 movies up for best picture, along with details on where and when you can watch them at home.

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’Aaron Hilmer in “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

Reiner Bajo/Netflix

Stream on Netflix.

“All Quiet on the Western Front” is a German-language anti-war film from director Edward Berger. It’s based on the 1929 novel of the same name, and follows a young German soldier and his comrades in the final days of World War I. The book was previously adapted into a 1930 American film, which won best picture at the 1930 Academy Awards.

The 2022 film is available to stream exclusively on Netflix. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is also nominated for several other Oscars, including best cinematography, best international feature, and best adapted screenplay.

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’“Avatar: The Way of Water.”

20th Century Studios/Disney

Now playing only in theaters. Expected to stream on Disney Plus later this year.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” is the epic sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi film “Avatar.” The movie follows the Sully family 15 years after the events of the original film. When an ancient threat reappears, Jake and Neytiri must fight a costly war against the humans. 

James Cameron returns as director and co-writer, with the cast being led by Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet. “The Way of Water” is also up for best sound, best production design, and best visual effects.

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin.”

Jonathan Hession/Searchlight Pictures

Stream on HBO Max. Rent or buy from Amazon, Vudu, and Apple TV.

From writer and director Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” is a black comedy-drama set in 1920s off the coast of Ireland. The movie is about the chaos that erupts when the lifelong friendship between Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson) suddenly ends. The cast also includes Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon.

“The Banshees of Inisherin” received nine total nominations at the 2023 Oscars, including best actor (Farrell), best supporting Actor (Gleeson and Keoghan), best supporting actress (Condon), best original screenplay, and best director.

‘Elvis’Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in “Elvis.”

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Stream on HBO Max. Rent or buy on Amazon, Vudu, and Apple TV.

Directed and written by Baz Luhrmann, “Elvis” is a biopic based on the life and career of iconic musician Elvis Presley (Austin Butler). The film also explores Elvis’ complicated 20-year relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) as well as his marriage to Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).

In addition to best picture, “Elvis” is nominated for seven more awards at the Oscars, including nods for best actor (Butler), best sound, best cinematography, and best film editing.

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’“Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

A24

Stream on Showtime. Buy on Amazon, Vudu, and Apple TV.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a genre-defying blend of drama, action, comedy, and sci-fi. The story focuses on a Chinese-American woman (Michelle Yeoh) being audited by the IRS who suddenly finds herself thrust into a fantastical battle to save the multiverse. The film was written and directed by Daneil Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known collectively as “Daniels”). The cast also includes Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, and James Hong.

The A24-produced movie has the most nominations (11) of any film at the 2023 Academy Awards. The movie is also up for best actress (Yeoh), best supporting actor (Quan), best supporting actress (Hsu and Curtis), and best director (Daniels), among others.

‘The Fabelmans’Gabriel LaBelle in “The Fabelmans.”

Universal

Buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.  Expected to stream on Peacock by February 14.

“The Fabelmans” is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama loosely based on the upbringing of director and writer Steven Spielberg. The movie tells the story of Sammy Fabelman, a young aspiring filmmaker who discovers a secret that could tear his family apart. The cast features Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Seth Rogen, and Julia Butters.

A frontrunner for best picture, “The Fabelmans” is also nominated for best director, best original screenplay, best actress (Williams), best supporting actor (Hirsch), best score, and best production design.

‘Tár’“Tár”

Focus Features

Stream on Peacock. Rent or buy on Amazon, Vudu, and Apple TV.

“Tár” explores the fictional story of a renowned musician named Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), whose life begins to unravel days before she’s set to record a career-defining symphony. The psychological drama is written and directed by Todd Field (“Carol”) and features supporting performances by Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, and Mark Strong.

“Tár” is also up for Oscars in categories like best actress (Blanchett), best director, best cinematography, and best original screenplay.

‘Top Gun: Maverick’Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Paramount Pictures

Stream on Paramount Plus and MGM Plus. Rent or buy on Amazon, Vudu, and Apple TV.

Tom Cruise reprises his role as accomplished naval aviator Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 action drama “Top Gun.” The 2022 film sees Maverick confront difficult parts of his past as he trains a young group of recruits for a dangerous mission. Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, and Glen Powell join Cruise in the cast, with Val Kilmer reprising his role as “Iceman” from the original movie.

“Top Gun: Maverick” is nominated for a total of six awards at the 2023 Oscars, including best adapted screenplay, best sound, best editing, best visual effects, and best original song for Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand.”

‘Triangle of Sadness’Woody Harrelson in “Triangle of Sadness.”

Neon

Rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

This satirical black comedy is centered on a luxury cruise that sinks and leaves wealthy survivors like celebrity fashion models Yaya and Carl stranded on an island. The main couple is portrayed by Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson. The cast of “Triangle of Sadness” also includes Woody Harrelson, Dolly de Leon, and Vicki Berlin.

“Triangle of Sadness” writer and director Ruben Östlund also received nominations for best director and best original screenplay.

‘Women Talking’Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley in “Women Talking.”

Hear/Say Productions

Currently playing only in theaters.

Based on the 2018 book of the same name, “Women Talking” is a drama from director Sarah Polley. The movie follows the women of a small fictional Mennonite community who struggle to reconcile with their faith upon learning the truth about a series of sexual assaults. The women then deliberate over how to move forward: Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. 

Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Frances McDormand, and Ben Whishaw lead the film’s cast. “Women Talking” screenwriter Sarah Polley is also nominated for best adapted screenplay at the 2023 Oscars.