Art Must Be Ruined Parents Are the Real Monsters in Stephen King’s Stories Stephen King called Pet Sematary “the most frightening book I’ve ever written.” The new movie version doesn’t live up to that hype. It’s ... By Noah BerlatskyApril 9, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Plot Amnesia: An Epidemic No One Can Forget There is so much amnesia in our media that you can’t forget it even if you try. Jane Doe in Blindspot, Samantha Caine ... By Noah BerlatskyApril 2, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Ant-Man and the Wasp Proved Small Stories Can Have a Big Impact I wasn’t especially overwhelmed, or even impressed by Ant-Man and the Wasp when I saw it for the first time. I could barely ... By Noah BerlatskyMarch 26, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Why Face/Off is Twice as Good as All Other Action Movies You can have a great hero or a great villain, but it’s hard to have both at once. Heath Ledger’s Joker in 2008’s ... By Noah BerlatskyMarch 19, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Reconciles Literature and Fantasy Genre fiction and literary fiction are mortal enemies locked in eternal struggle, one firing deadly laser blasts, the other responding with withering nuanced ... By Noah BerlatskyMarch 12, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Murderbot Diaries Deconstructs Gender with a Genderless Robot Robots in fiction have from the beginning been used to talk about how gender is constructed and how gender constructs us. In Karel ... By Noah BerlatskyMarch 5, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined The Sucker Was Racist, Simple and Plain John Wayne was a racist, homophobic ass. Why should we care? A lot of people have been asking that question since comments from ... By Noah BerlatskyFebruary 26, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Counterpart’s Slow Plot Was Part of its Charm Starz just announced that it will not renew its science fiction alternate world spy drama Counterpart for a third season. As a fan, ... By Noah BerlatskyFebruary 19, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Studios Should Make Strong Films, Not Weak Universes The DC Extended Universe is an imitative, unoriginal endeavor that has failed not because it’s boring but because it hasn’t been able to ... By Noah BerlatskyFebruary 12, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Dune’s Paul Atreides Is the Ultimate Mighty Whitey With news that a new Dune film is in the works, it’s worth pausing to remember that Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides is the most ... By Noah BerlatskyFebruary 8, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined The Good Place Has Lost What Made It Good The last episode of the third season of NBC’s theological sitcom The Good Place culminates in a montage. Montages are always a sign ... By Noah BerlatskyFebruary 5, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined Greed Is Killer in Netflix’s Polar Assassins on screen are action heroes or anti-heroes who get paid. That makes them glamorous. Villanelle on Killing Eve performs acts of shocking ... By Noah BerlatskyJanuary 29, 2019