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I think it’s impossible to recall the appeal of 2019’s Joker­—an R-rated comic book movie without any superheroes that grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide—without...

Between the color timing, the shot selection, and the weird lack of onscreen violence despite being rated R, this movie owes less to Stephen King’s novel than it does to the TNT originals based on...

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JVL: A Pro-Life Murder 🔐

JOE PERTICONE: Donald Trump Is Not Your Nutrition God

Overtime is for everyone. If...

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask why so few watch Netflix’s prestige pictures, and if it really matters. Then...

For family films there are three quadrants: children, parents, and the childless. Word of mouth on THE WILD ROBOT is going to be very good, I think: kids will love the humor, parents will love that...

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JVL: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About the Trump Watch 🔐

SONNY BUNCH: ‘Megalopolis’...

I have three basic theories of criticism:

1.) It's better to champion a thing people don't like than to attack a thing people do like;

2.) You have to judge a movie based on whether or not it works...

Megalopolis is an act of remarkable hubris: a self-funded cinematic plea for humanity to assert its least-base nature and give itself over to the possibility of utopia. Francis Ford Coppola loves...

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the $2.2 billion in improvements to movie theaters, which are looking to...

Tina Clarke rides the restored 1921 Dentzel carousel that she once protested on more than sixty years ago, during a week of Juneteenth celebrations on June 25, 2023 at the Glen Echo Park in Maryland....

I don’t think THE SUBSTANCE entirely works, but when it does work it works as a metaphor for addiction better than a parable for society’s sexism. I tried to explain why here without spoiling too...

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s libel suit against Variety, as well as a whacky...

Took my five year old son to see this; it’s fine but it does have a big structural problem, which is that none of the transformers we’re following do any transforming until like 70 minutes in? My...

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JVL is off today.

JOE PERTICONE AND MARC CAPUTO: Laura Loomer Looms Over Trump Land 🔐

SONNY...

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I am not one to argue that all art is inherently political, as this almost always ends up with folks getting into very boring digressions about whether or not a film or a book reflects...

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DONALD TRUMP HAD A PLAN FOR Tuesday night’s presidential debate. But then the cat, neither abducted nor consumed, got his tongue and...

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss why indie studios like Neon can’t really afford great films like Hit Man...

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DONALD TRUMP’S TEAM ISN’T SPINNING the stakes around Tuesday night’s debate. 

They see the matchup as critical, perhaps Trump’s best—and...

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JVL: The Tenet Media Guys Are Worse Than Useful Idiots 🔐

MARC CAPUTO: JD Vance Has Become Trump’s Human...

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OF ALL THE REFLECTIONS offered by lawmakers on the school shooting that left four people dead at Apalachee High School this week, one from Sen. Rick Scott stood out.

“Our...