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The Best Films of 2024
The films that broke the form
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The Best Films of 2023
How do you live?
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The Best Films of 2022
"My favorite thing about the movie is, like, it feels like a movie" - H. Styles
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The A24 Auteur
On "The Green Knight" and the Reigning Champs of Arthouse Cinema
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"Anyone But You" Signals a Quiet Sea Change
The Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell Rom Com Passed $200 Million at the Box Office. That's significant.
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There's Nothing Wrong With Loving Blockbusters
Thoughts on Richard Donner's Passing and "Black Widow"
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"Dune: Part Two": The Cynical Epic for Our Times
The sci-fi sequel is awe-inspiring, but also hits more somber notes
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The Best Films of 2021
My Annual Year-End List Returns to the Theater...
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Of Course I Wrote About Lorde's New Album
On "Solar Power," Lorde Doesn't Have All the Answers - And That's Why It's Great
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The Laugh Track Relapse
Do "Ted Lasso" and "Schitt's Creek" prove that the sitcom is making a comeback?
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James Gunn Grows Up
On "The Suicide Squad" and the Evolution of a Filmmaker
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"How to Be Single" - The Last Rom Com
How a 2016 Dakota Johnson vehicle signaled the end of an era for the studio rom com - and why we may never be able to go back
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