https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/david-thomson/on-the-red-carpet Created Fri, 23/02/2024 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 23/02/2024 - 00:00 The crack in the promise of the Academy Awards is that American pictures don’t cut it any more. ‘Hollywood’ (if you are prepared to believe that kingdom still exists) doesn’t know how to deliver a pointed universality that can upset us.