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Jae C. Hong / AP The Failure of Mulan Is More Bad News for Hollywood
The film’s disappointing release is further evidence that the pandemic is defeating blockbuster movies.
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Antebellum Isn’t Just Bad—It’s Vile
To make a point about the evils of white supremacy, the film subjects its Black characters to unceasing brutality.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fandom Was Never Frivolous
The kitschy celebrations of the justice have always insisted, in their way, that the personal is judicial.
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Amazon Studios 4 Films You Need to Watch This Fall
Some of the year’s best new movies are about American soul-searching.
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AP / The Atlantic Do You Speak Fox?
How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language
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VALERIE MACON / AFP / Getty Hollywood’s Tenet Experiment Failed
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster was supposed to save U.S. theaters. Now the future looks bleaker than ever.
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HBO The Dangerous Naïveté of Coastal Elites
HBO’s tepid satire about the provincialism of U.S. liberals doesn’t play well in a year as catastrophic as 2020.
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Scott Winters / Icon Sportswire / Getty The Coronavirus Is Revealing Football’s Human Cost
Amid a global pandemic, the NFL’s non-guaranteed contracts force players into a familiar choice: stay safe, or stay on the field.
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The Atlantic There’s No Excuse for Failing the Oscars’ Diversity Requirements
The awards’ new Best Picture eligibility rules are so lenient, they’d shame any film that can’t meet them.
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Getty / Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Trajectory
A short story
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Peter Terzian / The Atlantic Caleb Crain on Math, Solitude, and the Nature of Time
“For a long time, I was a pretty strict realist, but lately I seem to be relenting.”
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Franco Origlia / Getty / Katie Martin / ... ‘Aging, Loneliness, Losing Your Mind, and Falling Apart’
Charlie Kaufman’s strange new film, Netflix’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is about the things that terrify him.
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Starz The Southern-Gothic Stripper Drama That TV Deserves
Give into the lush, neo-noir pleasures of the new Starz show P-Valley.
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Disney+ The Question That Mulan Doesn’t Ask
Disney’s live-action remake about a young woman warrior goes heavy on gravitas, at the expense of playful interiority.
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Mary Cybulski / Netflix Charlie Kaufman’s First Movie in Years Is a Mind-Bender
Netflix’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is presented as a psychological-horror drama, but it’s so much more.
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Warner Bros. I Want to Watch Tenet Again. Unfortunately.
Christopher Nolan’s dense, time-bending epic practically demands multiple viewings. Whether that’s a good idea during a pandemic is a different story.
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Big Hit Entertainment BTS’s ‘Dynamite’ Could Upend the Music Industry
The English-language single’s massive success is a career milestone for the South Korean pop group—and a reflection of America’s entertainment market.
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Deawnne Buckmire / Instagram / The Atlantic What Incarcerated Rappers Can Teach America
This year’s national reckoning over policing means that more people could stand to seriously listen to the music of young artists who have firsthand experience with the system.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Chadwick Boseman Gave Us Something We Had Not Had Before
He brought King T’Challa to life in a way that transfixed the world and spoke uniquely to Black Americans.
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MELODIE MCDANIEL / TRUNK ARCHIVE The Profound Heroism of Chadwick Boseman
The actor played revolutionary characters who made both Hollywood and American history—all while quietly undergoing treatment for the cancer that took his life at age 43.
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