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Universal Us and Jordan Peele’s New Horror
In his latest film, the comedian turned director continues to reinvent how the genre uses fear to comment on humanity’s evil.
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Colin Anderson / Alex Wong / Getty / ... Americans Can’t Stop Mythologizing Robert Mueller
Batman. Superman. Boyfriend. Savior. While the special counsel has conducted a notably quiet investigation, Americans have filled in the blanks.
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Netflix The Dirt Celebrates the Soullessness of Mötley Crüe
Netflix’s shiny biopic of the hair-metal band barely tries to understand the destruction it portrays.
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Hulu Motherhood Is Monstrous in The Act
The new Hulu series is a fascinating, queasy blend of horror, fantasy, and true crime.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Hollywood Makes Way for the Disney-Fox Behemoth
The merger—inked for $71.3 billion—will dramatically reshape the entertainment landscape.
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Audrey McAvoy / AP / Shutterstock / The ... The Poet of Premature Endings
In his work for The Atlantic, W. S. Merwin often wrote about time slipping away and goals remaining just out of reach.
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Rick Scuteri / USA Today / Reuters Baseball’s Best Player Deserves More Than $430 Million
Mike Trout just signed a record-breaking contract extension with the Los Angeles Angels. What he really needs is a team that can win championships.
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Amazon The Transcendent Final Season of Catastrophe
The boisterous Amazon Prime series from Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney ended with a finale that honored the love and grief of its protagonists and creators alike.
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Ralph Morse / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... I Spent My Life in Newsrooms—But in My Novels, Reporters Aren’t the Heroes
Journalists are in the business of finding facts and telling secrets, and these aren’t the acts that move a story of Washington intrigue forward.
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Eric Charbonneau / Invision for Warner Bros. / ... What the Casting Couch Looks Like in the Digital Age
One of Hollywood’s most pernicious tropes hasn’t died. It has merely expanded.
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Netflix / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Radical Sincerity of The OA
More than two years after the surprise release of their Netflix series about an interdimensional traveler, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are back with an installment that’s even more ambitious than the first.
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Universal Jordan Peele’s Us Is Worth Seeing Again and Again
The Get Out director’s new film is more complicated, more outrageous, and, in a lot of ways, more daringly funny and topical than its predecessor.
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AP Photo / Eugene Hoshiko Why James Gunn Won His Job Back
Months after firing the Guardians of the Galaxy director over past offensive tweets, Disney reversed its decision.
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Pop The Bombastic Matriarch of Schitt’s Creek
With her eccentric vocabulary and fashion sense, Moira Rose (played by Catherine O’Hara) deploys her words and her wardrobe as a kind of plumage.
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Willy Sanjuan / Invision / AP / Quinn ... Patricia Arquette’s Second Act
At 50, the Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner is getting some of the most exciting roles of her career.
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Cohen Media Group Ash Is Purest White Is a Personal Story Told on an Epic Scale
The latest film from the Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke is a decades-spanning tale of love and betrayal in a drastically changing country.
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Ali Goldstein / Netflix One Day at a Time Taught Its Fans How to Say Goodbye
The beloved Netflix sitcom understood loss as an inevitability. But the show’s cancellation after three seasons is still difficult for many viewers to accept.
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Matt Sayles / Invision / AP The Movie Studio Trying to Survive on Risk Taking Alone
Annapurna Pictures—the company behind If Beale Street Could Talk and Sorry to Bother You—is being scrutinized for the reported unprofitability of its films. But its quandary reflects broader problems in Hollywood.
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Netflix Netflix’s New Heist Movie Gets Lost in the Jungle
Triple Frontier, by the gifted director J. C. Chandor, is a letdown compared with his prior work.
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Fox Searchlight The Aftermath Is a Superficial, War-Torn Love Story
James Kent’s period film centers on an affair between a British woman and a former Nazi sympathizer but fails to dig into the moral complexities of their relationship.
