Who Cares if Loki is Genderfluid?
Marvel barely pushes the envelope
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Author: Neal Pollack
‘Forget the Alamo’ Rewrites the Texas Myth
An entertaining deconstruction of the ‘Heroic Anglo Narrative’
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This is Super Us
What’s with all the superhero family drama?
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Bo Burnham Haz a Sad
‘Inside,’ a mournful one-man interior apocalypse
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‘Sex and Vanity’ Made Me Feel Poor and Gross
Call me by your name-drop
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‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’ Flames Out
Angelina Jolie jumps smoke in an overwrought Taylor Sheridan forest-fire noir drama
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‘The Premonition’ is Michael Lewis’s Science Fair Project
His COVID book says we didn’t social distance hard enough
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Statham Uncranked
‘Wrath of Man,” Guy Ritchie’s grim heist movie, pushes its marquee star aside way too often
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American Publishing in Censorship Mode
Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons
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Captain America Times Two
Anthony Mackie breaks new ground, while Wyatt Russell’s charismatic anti-hero pulls ‘Winter Soldier’ out of the hole
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The Arclight is Dead. It Didn’t Have to Die.
Government regulations and a scared media killed it, not the virus
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Idris Elba Rides the North Philly Range in ‘Concrete Cowboy’
A subculture comes to life in this Netflix urban melodrama
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Film Critics are Still Cosplaying the Apocalypse
Pretending movie theaters are dangerous places gives them a sense of purpose
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The Terrible Reign of Dr. Oz
Jeopardy! contestants go to war with a guest host
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George Segal Dies; Jews of a Certain Age Grieve
Clips from our most ‘That Guy From Temple’ movie star
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