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Why Are So Few Film Critics Female? Cont'd
In December, I wrote an Atlantic story about how the Internet led to the decline of female film critics at…
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Bettmann / Corbis Why Are So Few Film Critics Female?
The medium once championed their voices, but now, fewer than 20 percent of Rotten Tomatoes-excerpted reviews are by women.
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jvoves/Flickr Maybe a Twin Peaks Revival Without David Lynch Wouldn't Be That Bad
Without its famous co-creator at the helm, Showtime's reboot of the cult TV show can try to emulate the success of other Lynchian knockoffs.
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PBS Downton Abbey, Casualty of a Changing World
The aristo-soap, which won an immense following in the aftermath of the financial crisis, is ending before the appeal of its upstairs-downstairs dynamic wears off.
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Pegasus Was James Bond the Result of Ian Fleming's Midlife Crisis?
A new book about the novelist's Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, suggests an indulgent and escapist lifestyle inspired a character who embodied a stubbornly anachronistic ethos.
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Sony Pictures Humans Are Terrible in Chappie, and That's the Point
Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi, coming-of-age film plays up the flatness of its flesh-and-blood characters to focus on the soul of its young robot hero.
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USA Apocalypse, Now: Dig's Surprisingly Relevant Doomsday Drama
USA's new outlandish murder-mystery miniseries offers a smart portrayal of religious fanaticism that has real-world resonance.
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PBS/The Atlantic Downton Abbey Ends With Good Cheer
The fifth season finale successfully warmed hearts, despite another Bates tragedy, a very nasty butler, and some inedible broth.
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Disney/The Atlantic The Troublesome Rebirth of the Kevin Costner Everyman
The star's heartfelt performances in his two latest films can't redeem the fact that his once-beloved archetype doesn't speak for America the way it used to.
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Mike Blake/Reuters The Oscars' Renaissance of Political Activism
The Academy Awards ceremony has never been particularly friendly to big displays of social advocacy. So what happened this year?
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PBS/The Atlantic Downton Abbey Gets a Fresh Influx of Villainery
A sociopath, a drunk, and a tramp nearly ruined Rose's London wedding, even as the show's resident scoundrel showed his softer side.
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Paramount/The Atlantic Why There Should Be an Oscar Category for Dramatic Research
It's unlikely to ever happen, but an Academy Award for archival legwork could help solve the growing awards-season problem of tearing down films for supposed inaccuracies.
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Axel Schmidt/AP The Rich Kids Changing Independent Film
Trust-fund babies and entrepreneurs are bankrolling auteur-minded films, with varying results—but at least they're not sequels.
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PBS Downton Abbey: Can Love Last In a Cold Climate?
There were two engagements this week, but both appear to be at risk thanks to unpleasant family members.
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PBS On Downton Abbey, Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
Mary cut her hair and Daisy continued her studies, but the bravest move of all was Edith's.
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PBS On Downton Abbey, Two Rivals Finally Face Off
On Super Bowl Sunday, a showdown between Yorkshire's most pompous patriarch and an interloping art historian was perhaps inevitable.
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PBS Downton Abbey Has One New Trick Up Its Sleeve
What is going on with Thomas? His sickly pallor and kitchen thievery spiced up an otherwise standard fourth episode of the show's fifth season.
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Sony Pictures Classics Leviathan: An Incisive Take on Russia Even Putin Couldn't Ignore
The country's entry for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars is a rare example of a director's prestige prevailing over a fiercely controlling propaganda machine.
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PBS Downton Abbey Delves Into the Dowager Countess's Secret Past
For all its failings, the fifth season's third episode gave the indomitable Violet her very own Doctor Zhivago.
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PBS Grantchester: Attractive Vicar Solves Crimes in Idyllic English Village
The latest Masterpiece Mystery! spices up cookie-cutter murder mysteries with a turn by the dashing James Norton.
