The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the only Oscars 2023 catchup movie you need

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The 95th Academy Awards ceremony is coming up in a week, which still leaves curious film fans a little time to catch up on the nominees — most of them are available to stream by now. But as usual, the contenders are mostly a bunch of serious stories. If you need a break from watching graphically gruesome trench warfare in Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Brendan Gleeson performatively mutilating himself in The Banshees of Inisherin, or rich people projectile vomiting en masse in Triangle of Sadness, here’s a palate cleanser for you.

Brendan Fraser is heavily favored to win the Best Actor Oscar this year for his mournful role in The Whale, while Michelle Yeoh is the odds-on favorite for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once. So why not take a couple of hours to watch the only film they ever made together? 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is readily available on streaming services.

Granted, you won’t get to see Yeoh tenderly caressing Jamie Lee Curtis’ face while wearing floppy, disturbing hot-dog-finger gloves. Or Fraser symbolically taking on other people’s sins in another Darren Aronofsky Biblical metaphor. Dragon Emperor is the kind of movie that didn’t even merit the Oscars’ attention back in 2008, before the Best Picture category was expanded to gin up public interest in the awards by making room at the top of the nominee list for mega-hits like James Cameron’s Avatar. It was tragically snubbed understandably overlooked by the Academy, but it’s still a pretty fun time today.

And it’s even more enjoyable in the light of the interactions Yeoh and Fraser have had together on the awards circuit: Fraser tearfully hugging Yeoh at the Critics Choice Awards, Yeoh hauling Fraser into the