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Our Plans for the Second Half of the Year (Important Read)
Woah, we're halfway there! Announcing major updates for the second half of the and more.
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Cannes 2025 Review: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ is Shenanigans Over Sentiment
Part-espionage thriller, part-portrait of another of the director's dysfunctional families, the film is a visually stunning but distracted rumination on…
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Farah
Cannes 2025 Review: Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest' is Gloriously Chaotic
The movie's sincerity can verge on idealistic at times, but it also gives rise to blasts of virtuosic filmmaking and some genuinely affecting moments.
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Farah
Cannes 2025 Review: At Cannes, ‘The Mastermind’ Said the Unspoken
Fittingly, Kelly Reichardt's Cannes-closer is a portrait of a power-keg period of history glimpsed from the periphery, and a wry, withering film about…
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Farah
JUNE 2025 PICKS: PRE-TEENS AND TWEENS
A selection of movies about the precarious and transient ages of ten to fourteen.
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veronica phillips

May 2025

Three Essential Essays on Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners'
Earlier this month, we sought essays to publish on Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners'. With these three must reads, our subscribers are more than eating good.
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Oral History: On 'Sinners' and Speaking Plainly
There’s a satisfying comparison to be drawn between the act of eating someone out and the bloodthirsty desire of Sinners’ monster antagonists, an…
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veronica phillips
'Sinners' Tries, We Deny: On Desiring Fat Black Women
Annie in 'Sinners' shatters the illusion of the undesirable fat Black woman, compelling audiences to confront their own deeply ingrained biases.
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Faith is Bigger Than God: 'Sinners,' Religion, and Community
In a time of intense division and a drive toward individualism, 'Sinners' pushes a people-based faith that encourages us to lean on our neighbor, to…
'Severance' Finale: What Remains At The End Of The World
Bella Vega on grief, love, and the most effective season finale of television she's ever seen.
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Isabella
MAY 2025 PICKS: NIGHTMARES
What shape do your nightmares take?
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Alisha Mughal

April 2025

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