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One weird trick for fixing Hollywood
Plus: the asylum that raised Will Stancil
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What is the civil war in 'Civil War' about?
'Civil War' as an anti-explainer movie
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'Dune: Part 2,' annotated
A long, mostly comprehensive, extremely pedantic companion to the 'Dune' sequel
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Is there a 'Godzilla' of 9/11? Part Two
Surveying alien movies, plane movies, superhero movies, and '90s movies
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Is there a 'Godzilla' of 9/11?
A taxonomy of 9/11 movies, Part One
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David Fincher's new movie 'The Killer' is sigma cinema
Fincher as greentext auteur
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf,' revisited with Indignity's Tom Scocca
On the charms of "Bootleg Cinema"
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The William Friedkin Paranoid-Thriller Double Bill
Two overlooked classics from the great director
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Who was "The Enemy" in 'Top Gun: Maverick'?
And other questions about the 'Top Gun' sequel
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Watch "Azor" this weekend
New halogencore just dropped. Plus: Afrofuturism, Scottish castles, and beautiful music
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'90s Dad Thrillers: a List
Notes toward a theory of the Dad Thriller
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"Dune" (the movie), annotated
Dreams are newsletters from the deep
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