‘Materialists’: Celine Song Gets It All Wrong
Dakota Johnson stars in snoozy, unfunny romcom
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Author: Neal Pollack
‘Mountainhead’: Confirmation Bias About Tech For the Chattering Classes
Premium content for people who think they’re premium, but aren’t
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‘Thunderbolts’: What About Bob?
Not-bad Marvel installment features character who’s the MCU’s new pal Poochie
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Paramount Wears It
In a rough two days for the media corporation, ’60 Minutes’ and Nathan Fielder stomp all over the hand that feeds them
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Up Yours, Ted Sarandos, Movie Theaters Are Back!
Netflix CEO picked the wrong weekend to say that people just want to stay home and chill
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Is In Your Brain
Everyone gets an implant as we approach some sort of singularity
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Public Funding for PBS and NPR is Coming to an End
In a nation divided, nationally-funded media makes less sense than ever
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‘Warfare’ May Be the Most Viscerally Realistic Combat Movie Ever Made
Iraq, in real time, without sentiment
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In ‘Drop,’ Meghann Fahy Looks At Her Phone For 90 Minutes, Followed By Extreme Violence
A nasty little exploitation picture in disguise as a fun, snarky modern puzzlebox thriller
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‘The White Lotus’ and the Last Stand of Premium TV
Enjoy those Boomer and Gen-X narrative skills while you can
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‘The Luckiest Man In America’ Fails to Hit the Jackpot
If this movie were a contestant, it would have hit a Whammy
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Val Kilmer: ‘Top Secret,’ His First Movie, Was His Best Movie
Sunday? That’s Simchas Torah.
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No, Donald Trump is Not ‘Taking Control of the Arts’
What’s behind the Kennedy Center panic
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The Decadent Endgame of Food Competition TV
Too many shows, too few cooks, as food TV eats its own tail
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