12 Recent Movies Better Reviewed Than Green Book

4. Blindspotting

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% (8.02/10)

Of all the "race movies" released last year, it says a lot about the Academy and their stubbornly dated tastes that they gave the Best Picture Oscar to Green Book.

In a year where they also nominated Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman for Best Picture, the movie written, directed and produced by an army of middle-aged white men was what the Academy could tolerate in regard to the current racial conversation in the U.S.

But it's an even bleaker picture when you consider the glut of acclaimed race-themed movies released last year that didn't even get a single nomination.

Despite strong critical praise, The Hate U Give (8.11) and Sorry to Bother You (7.72) were completely ignored, while the most egregious and Oscar-friendly omission was surely Blindspotting.

An angry, politically-charged movie that confronts police brutality and the treatment of black people in the U.S. with ferocious sledgehammer force, it's a remarkable film and one that should've been nominated in a number of key categories.

But alas, the still predominantly white Academy voters likely found the film's pissed-off approach too "intimidating", and so stuck with the softer-edged Green Book.

At least Blindspotting is likely to live on as a woke cult classic, while Green Book will quickly fade into the cultural ether as a throwback relic.