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I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

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Could Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything be up for Best Picture Oscar instead?

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The academy's docu branch may not be receptive to the hit nonfiction film, which opens in Singapore cinemas Nov 26.

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