You’ll find a lot of 2018 films more loved by critics than Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody, but both have found enthusiastic audiences. On Sunday night, they were the big winners in film at the Golden Globes, in a ceremony that dragged 20 minutes past its scheduled time and occasionally felt as if it was rushing through a list of awards and trying desperately to get winners to wrap it up.
Standard Golden Globes caveats: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is relatively small, notoriously weird in its tastes, and possessed of a reputation politely described as “eye-poppingly solicitous in matters related to famous people.” You never want to take the Globes too seriously, except that they are a high-profile event that’s a big part of Oscar campaigning — whether they should be or not. (They should not.)
As to the ceremony itself, hosts tend to set the tone for such an evening, and this one was no different. Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg both have laid-back and agreeable personas. Both ooze good vibes. She’s a brilliant actress who’s found a brilliant vehicle in Killing Eve, and he’s a goofball whose comedy has never been better or more heartfelt than it is on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. They’re performers who like to please people. Nobody expected their monologue to be particularly cutting, and it wasn’t.
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