So Kate Hudson’s in the new Knives Out movie Glass Onion, in which the Mona Lisa painting plays a pivotal role.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
When Bad is Good
Striving for what’s traditionally considered “great” in art is overrated as an objective virtue.
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No NY No NY No
It’s a cliche to say that setting a story in New York turns the city into an important character within the movie’s firmament.
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Lyle, Lyle, Dramaturgy
A musical’s primary dramaturgy is rooted in which parts of the story the composers decide to set to music.
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The “Greatest” Showmen
Does anyone else find it weird that Pasek and Paul scored two straight movie musicals with basically the same plots?
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This Way to the Missionary
In my 32 year lifetime, has anyone converted more adolescent disciples to the religion of Musicals than Idina Menzel?
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Starring Staring
Noémie Merlant is becoming cinema’s foremost starer.
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Something in the Nope
How would 21st century cash-strapped Americans respond if they encountered the supernatural?
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Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
My name is critique, oh!
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