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Everything Everywhere All At Once is a reminder that Oscar front-runners don’t have to be Oscar bait.

Backtrack to October 2001 and I’m sitting in a Manhattan cinema watching Martin Scorsese introduce the first ever publicly screened footage from his dream project Gangs of New York. The movie has just been delayed on account of 9/11, but Scorsese is telling a story about the day George Lucas visited the set…