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Netflix’s Fyre Festival Documentary Arrives This Week
In April 2017, it was marketed as the party of a lifetime. The Fyre Music Festival was billed as a two-weekend, immersive experience in paradise where festival goers would enjoy top musical acts, party...
View ArticleHow On-Screen Depictions of Veterans So Often Betray Them
It’s been a trope for half a century: the damaged ex-soldier returns home from war, depressed, confused and probably dangerous. There are the unhinged, Russian roulette-playing Vietnam vets of Deer...
View ArticleGhostbusters 3: Watch the Surprise Trailer of the Secret Sequel
Grab your proton packs and slip into the nearest beige jumpsuit because a brand new Ghostbusters movie is on the way! Like Slimer from a hotdog cart, the first teaser trailer popped up most...
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Fighting ‘Fyre’ With ‘Fyre Fraud’: Two Documentaries About the Same Disaster
Fyre Festival just keeps delivering drama. In the months leading up to April 2017, Fyre Festival was promoted as a glamorous music festival that would be filled with Instagram models and other...
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M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ Isn’t Quite ‘Unbreakable’
Again and again, in M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass—the sequel to 2016’s Split, which was itself a stealth sequel to 2000’s Unbreakable—there are moments that should, by any reasonable measure, work. In the...
View ArticleWhy the New Michael Jackson Documentary Won’t Have the Impact ‘Surviving R....
If anyone ever needed a reminder of the awesome power of documentaries, Surviving R. Kelly provided a particularly impactful one. Since the docuseries aired, Kelly has been dropped by RCA, denounced by...
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All the Mr. Rogers Gifs You Need to Believe in Humanity Again
The past few years have been tough, to say the least. At times, I’ve found myself questioning whether people are still good at heart. That’s when I turn to my sure-fire way of snapping back into...
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The 2019 Animated Short Film Oscar Nominees, Reviewed
Shorts come back in season every February, as the showcases of Oscar-nominated animated, live-action, and documentary short films make their way to theaters around the country. But this year, at least...
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Netflix Refuses to Remove Real-Life Disaster Footage From ‘Birdbox’
Canadians are furious over Netflix’s use of real-life footage of a deadly oil-train disaster in two of the company’s recent science fiction productions. The 2013 accident in Lac-Megantic, Quebec,...
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2019 Short Film Oscar Nominees, Reviewed: Live-Action And Documentary
Live-Action Short Films If the theme of this year’s animated short Oscar nominees was “parenthood,” the theme of 2019’s live-action shorts is “boys in trouble.” From a son of white supremacists to...
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Oscars 2019: The Complete List
Updated at 11:36 p.m. EST Director Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, about a black musician (played by Mahershala Ali) touring the segregated South with a white chauffeur (Viggo Mortensen), won the 2019...
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Oscars 2019: What Trevor Noah Really Said in His ‘Black Panther’ Joke
While presenting the montage for best picture nominee Black Panther, Daily Show host Trevor Noah made a joke in Xhosa, a language spoken by millions in South Africa and in a few other African countries...
View ArticleWhy Does the Academy Keep Denying Glenn Close An Oscar?
Remember the collective sigh of relief that greeted Leonardo DiCaprio’s Best Actor Academy Award? Before 2016’s Oscars had even started, everyone knew that of course Leo would walk away with a gold...
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On the Awe-Inspiring Bravery of Selma Blair
Selma Blair has been an American treasure for so long now, a lot of us feel like we’ve grown up with her. From coming-of-age awakenings in Cruel Intentions and preppie mean-girling in Legally Blonde to...
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‘Leaving Neverland’ Makes Powerful But One-Sided Case Against the King Of Pop
HBO’s Leaving Neverland is ultimately a tribute to the power of personal testimony. Over four hours, the film slowly excavates the stories of James Safechuck and Wade Robson. The two men each met...
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‘Captain Marvel’ Checks Every Superhero Movie Box AND Passes the Bechdel Test
There are several moments in Captain Marvel—most of them intimate two-hander scenes between Agent Nick Fury (a digitally de-aged Samuel L. Jackson) and the main character (Brie Larson)—where the...
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‘Girl’ Talk: 2 Critics Break Down Netflix’s Polarizing Transgender Teen Drama
This Friday, after months of delays, Netflix is releasing the Belgian film Girl, a controversial coming-of-age drama about a transgender ballerina. Critic Andrew Lapin broke down the movie with film...
View ArticleHow True Crime Helped Me Deal With a Real-Life Monster
A few years ago, after 17 years of friendship, a man I adored and thought I knew very well was sentenced to three decades in prison for charges related to pedophilia. His case included acts on children...
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Exploring the Psychological Tolls of Space Travel, Before ‘Lucy In The Sky’
Earlier this week, the trailer for Natalie Portman’s new movie, Lucy In The Sky, emerged. In it, Portman plays an astronaut struggling to readjust to life on Earth after seeing “the whole universe.”...
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Jordan Peele Looked Into The Mirror And Saw The Evil Inside ‘Us’
The new movie Us, Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out, is a horror movie. It starts with a black family on vacation. They go to the beach; dad buys a boat. Then things start getting creepy. One night,...
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