An unexpectedly abrupt ending can prompt consideration of why the story concludes on such a surprisingly unresolved note.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
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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Slipstreaming
Slipstreaming explains the existence of *certain* (read: streaming) documentaries.
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Berg It
Come for John Williams, stay for Steven Spielberg’s home movies.
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Piece by Time
We Live in Time and Piece by Piece share more than the same release date.
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Write All Nite 