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New York Times critic Manohla Dargis today flings a lifesaver into the tsunami of bile otherwise known as the Oscar Aftermath, suggesting to readers that maybe you just had to be there for the show to have any real significance. She was, after all, attending her first Oscars ever — walking the red carpet, hitting the Governors Ball, the whole deal. And despite the preordained showing of The King’s Speech and James Franco’s half-assed hosting (perceptible even from the cheap seats, Dargis affirms), there is cause for optimism about this most beaten of dead horses.

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Manohla Dargis Went to the Oscars and All We Got Was This Lousy Epiphany