It is a performances centric movie

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.