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Ralph Breaks the Internet Is Remarkably Smart About What It Feels Like to Live OnlineThe Disney sequel levels up on the first movie.
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Orson Welles’ Latest Meta-Masterpiece Is Premiering on NetflixAnd after nearly a half-century in the making, The Other Side of the Wind feels remarkably finished.
Wide Angle
Steve James on How Oak Park Has Reacted to America to MeThree years later, many are still arguing about that pool. Others have looked deeper.
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Ballad of the Bent-Neck LadyThe Haunting of Hill House’s devastating twist episode will crush you emotionally—and enchant you visually.
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A Star Is Born Makes a Romance of Rock’s Most Damaging MythsThe movie’s battle between rock and pop, authenticity and artifice, and art and commerce is outdated at best.
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A Review of Venom as Written by One Movie Critic and His Evil Alien SymbioteWAIT—WHO SAID YOU GET TO WRITE THE HEADLINE?
Brow Beat
Unlike the Sitcom, the Good Place Podcast Might Give You Genuinely Useful Moral AdviceThe official companion to the NBC series offers so much more than behind-the-scenes trivia.
Television
American Vandal Season 2 Is Like a Penis Graffitied on a Brand-New CarHilarious, if not quite as ingenious as the first time you saw it.
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Michael Moore’s New Movie Is a Much-Needed Punch to the GutFahrenheit 11/9 is a rousing piece of propaganda and a worthy successor to the highest-grossing documentary of all time.
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Creed II Is a Throwback to an Older Kind of SequelThe newest Rocky movie fights like the franchise isn’t even planning to go another round.
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The New Dragon Tattoo Movie Reduces Lisbeth Salander to a Goth James BondThe Girl in the Spider’s Web has style, but it won’t leave you shaken or stirred.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Skater BroJonah Hill’s first movie as a director may leave you thinking he’s just a poser.
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The Hate U Give Is a Black Lives Matter Movie Designed for Anyone Willing to ListenIt’s a message movie, but it never forgets the human dimension.
Brow Beat
The Playwright Behind What the Constitution Means to Me on Questioning Our Founding DocumentHeidi Schreck discusses her new show about the Supreme Court, teenagers, and sexual assault.
Television
In The Good Place Season 3, God Is a Helicopter ParentThe brilliant NBC sitcom reinvents itself again, but the struggle remains the same.
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In American Dharma, Errol Morris Exposes Steve Bannon by Letting Him Think He WonThe already-controversial documentary gives the white nationalist a platform, then tries to take it out from under him.
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A New Movie Unearths the Illegal Mass Deportation of Hundreds in ’17Robert Greene’s latest blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction, past and present.