Growing Up in the Shadow of ‘In Cold Blood’
The Clutters were our neighbors, and my family’s friends
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Deck the Halls With Boughs of Dolly
‘Christmas on the Square’, an earnest holiday musical
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How To Make Great TV With John Wilson
HBO’s surprising ‘How To’ captures humans at their New Yorkiest
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Up From Appalachia
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ proposes that to escape poverty, you just have to want to go to Yale bad enough
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Woody Allen Breaks Stunning New Ground in ‘A Rainy Day In New York’
Just kidding, it’s the same old schtick
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Publishing Staff Protest New Jordan Peterson Book
The ‘Professor Against Political Correctness’ has 12 more rules to live by
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Meet the New Croods, Same As The Old Croods
A feel-good dollop of noisy nonsense
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Thanksgiving Movies For Thanksgiving
Give thanks for these movies, some of which are actually about Thanksgiving
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Ready or Not, it’s ‘Ready Player Two’
Bad sex scenes, virtual-reality nonsense, and 80s trash-culture pastiche
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Something’s Rotten in Romania
‘Collective,’ Alexander Nanau’s documentary about corruption in Romanian society, has lessons to impart worldwide.
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‘Mank’ in the Tank
David Fincher’s Old Hollywood movie is a pretentious snooze
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The Dark Vision of Stanley Donwood’s ‘Bad Island’
If Radiohead cover art were a wordless graphic novel
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On Deaf Ears
In the deeply empathetic ‘Sound of Metal,’ a heavy-metal drummer suddenly loses his hearing
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Jackie Chan is Still Alive, but Not Really Kicking
His latest, ‘Vanguard’, is all bomb, no fist
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Twitter Tries to Curb Cazzie David
Larry David’s daughter’s memoir is bad, but not all bad
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