Sometimes, there actually is truth in advertising.
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Author: Steven Strauss
More Than a Starer
Tár threw Noémie Merlant’s hat in the ring for the title of cinema’s foremost starer.
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Smoke Break
A globalized America deserves a globalized cinema.
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Food of Love for Fodder
Open captions challenge my preference for ambiguity in art.
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Open Interpretations
If diehard moviegoers — yes, we still exist — don’t check in advance, they’re liable to find themselves in an open-captions screening.
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Menken It
Disney is not Disney today without Alan Menken.
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A Tale of Technology
Hollywood’s relationship to using CGI has changed over the course of my moviegoing lifetime.
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How Do You Measure Influence?
When Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? (yay!) hit Disney+ (nay!), I theorized that no one has indoctrinated more generations to the Church of Show-Tunes than the titular Adele Dazeem.
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Colman Domingo Knows
Write All Nite has been screaming for Broadway to become a home to the horror genre.
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Escalator to Heaven
Write All Nite isn’t in the breaking-news business.
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