The Case for Sitting in the Dark with Strangers
Why it’s still worth paying $30 for a night at the movies
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Top Gun Maverick
Vroom, Vroom! ‘F1’ Is a Sleek, Flawed Star Vehicle
A racecar movie is Brad Pitt’s latest way to purr across our screens
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The Heat Is Off
The nostalgia trip of ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ fades quickly
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What Is Skydance And How Could It Acquire Paramount?
Paramount produced the first movie to take Best Picture at the Oscars in 1927. Comparative upstart Skydance Media may take the whole company.
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Best-Picture-Inspired Food for Oscar Night
Ace recipes from the BFG test kitchen
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Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?
Hollywood’s annoyingly puritanical Intercourse Discourse
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Why Movie Theaters Are Closing
Let us count the ways
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Maybe This Is The Year Popular Movies Win Oscars Again
Won’t the Academy think of the people who only see one or two movies a year?
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The Year of the Bromance
Complicated male friendships thrive on film in 2022
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Is ‘Lightyear’ Too Woke?
Or are there other reasons why the latest Pixar movie flopped?
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How to Make a Great Legacy Sequel
Why ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ succeeded where ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ failed
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The Roaring Rise of ‘RRR’
We parse the popularity of the international Telegu smash
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BFG Podcast #058: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Outer Range’
Our editor and critics ride the highway to the Danger Zone
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Return to the Danger Zone
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is a corny and awesome sequel to an 80s classic
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With a Capital C
Cinema comes roaring back at Cannes 2022
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