Cillian Murphy, humanist actor.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Guess Who
When a movie/play is about a sizable family gathering, you can count on early conversations being rife with exposition clearly mapping out their family tree.
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Heretical
Casting recognizable actors in undersized roles can meaningfully dupe audience expectations.
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From Small Things
An unexpectedly abrupt ending can prompt consideration of why the story concludes on such a surprisingly unresolved note.
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Show and Skip
To show or not to show, that is a fundamental question of storytelling.
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Allegory Pageantry
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is an allegory about the social relations between a Christian majority and a Jewish minority.
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Real Cousin
A Real Pain centers a familial relationship that’s rarely the primary focus of art: cousins.
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Living on a Prayer
“There is no greater Fuck You in all the world than an old Jew lying in some forgotten graveyard in Europe with a tombstone dated 1946. Fuck. You.”
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Maybe Everything That Dies
Will the world finally hear Electric Nebraska in 2025?
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In the…
The Gutter resides on the lowest-fi end of the Blackening/Wayans “studio comedy” spectrum.
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Write All Nite 