Tony Gilroy's 'Behemoth!' Promises More Than It Delivers on Name Alone
Tony Gilroy, best known lately as the creator of Andor, has returned to the big screen with a film that IndieWire describes as smaller and stranger than its title would suggest. Pedro Pascal is front and center in what the outlet calls a love letter to film music — and where a movie called Behemoth! might suggest scale, the review's framing is of something more intimate and off-kilter instead. The awards chatter has already narrowed to a specific gate: whether the Academy's Music Branch will embrace The Behemoth! Collective. That is a narrower question than general Oscar contention, and a more interesting one for a film whose central subject is music itself.
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A title like Behemoth! sets an expectation of size. Calling the actual film smaller and stranger than that name is not a knock so much as a recalibration of what kind of movie this is.
The Oscar angle being floated is specifically about the Music Branch, not the Academy at large — which makes sense for a film built as a love letter to film music, and also means the conversation is about craft categories rather than Best Picture buzz.