‘Lanterns’ Lights Up HBO
Kyle Chandler is the greenest of Green Lanterns
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Watchmen
‘Santa Fe Trail’ and the Birth of the Crackpot Liberal Terrorist
In 1940, Hollywood depicted John Brown as a proto-Luigi
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Superman Has Left the Building
‘Illuminations’ by Alan Moore, a warning about our comics-obsessed culture
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‘Ms. Marvel’ Represents
From Muslim weddings to Pakistani history, the Marvel show breaks new ground. But why is Karachi actually Bangkok?
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The Trials of Cynthia Pelayo
Horror writer forced to scrap ‘Cops vs. Monsters’ anthology after online anti-police outcry
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The Many Faces of Jean Smart
‘Designing Women,’ an extraordinary recent run on HBO, and a significant body of work in between
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The Walking Klan
In P. Djèlí Clark’s ‘Ring Shout,” the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s are actual monsters
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Are We Moving Away From The Binge Watch?
Same Streaming Time, Same Streaming Service
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Each Best Picture Nominee Rated By the Linearity of Its Narrative
Introducing ‘The Murph Scale’
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The Best TV of 2019
Believe it or Not, Some of Our Critics Liked ‘Watchmen’
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‘Watchmen’ is Too Smart For Its Own Good
Superhero TV For The Elite
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Do We Have to Watch the Watchmen?
A “Reimagining” of the Legendary Graphic Novel Gets Mixed Reception at New York Comic Con
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