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‘The Stranger’ Turns Existentialism Into Something Dangerous

April 26, 2026 Neal Pollack 3 Comments absurdism, Albert Camus, Algiers 1930s, arthouse cinema, Benjamin Voisin, best films 2026, black and white film, book adaptation, Camus adaptation, classic literature, colonial history, colonialism, culture criticism, existential philosophy, existentialism, film adaptation, film criticism, film reviews, foreign film, François Ozon, French Algeria, French cinema, French New Wave, Italian neorealism, Jean-Paul Sartre, media analysis, Meursault, movie reviews, Orson Welles adaptation, philosophy in film, Pierre Lottin, postcolonial themes, race and identity, Rebecca Marder, The Cure Killing an Arab, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, violence and morality

François Ozon’s elegant Camus adaptation finds new urgency in colonial Algiers

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ Stings with Paranoid Precision

November 2, 2025November 5, 2025 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdism, AI paranoia, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, big pharma, Bugonia, conspiracy culture, dark comedy, Emma Stone, film review, Jesse Plemons, Pete Seeger, psychological thriller, satire, Save the Green Planet, Stavros Halkias, Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons electrify in a hallucinatory satire about the human urge to find meaning in chaos

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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