The Daily Beast’s Obsessed’s chief critic, Nick Schager, was just named film critic of the year by the LA Press Club at the organization’s 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards.

He was singled out for his reviews of Oscars Best Picture contender Train Dreams, the headline-making Blake Lively romance drama It Ends With Us, and last year’s award-season favorite The Brutalist. In their citation for Schager’s honor, the Press Club wrote, “With his review of The Brutalist, Schager deftly touches upon the enormity of Brady Corbet’s massive tale of art, vision, nationalism, betrayal.”

Schager was the first writer hired when The Daily Beast’s Obsessed launched in 2022, and had been one of the Beast’s most in-demand freelance reviewers before that. This week, you’ll be ab

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