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Terminator Genisys Is One of the Most Soulless Blockbusters of the Decade, and Also the Most Honest
Terminator Genisys is one of the worst blockbusters of the past decade. It is also one of the most revealing. Genisys is the ...
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Michael Keaton Gave Us a Perfectly Bizarre Batman
Michael Keaton brought an incredible vulnerability to the Caped Crusader that is Batman. In 1989, Keaton’s casting was controversial. The actor didn’t exactly ...
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How Pixar Changed American Animated Storytelling
When you ask people what they love about Pixar movies, they tend to gravitate towards the big emotional scenes — and understandably so. ...
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15 Years Ago, Batman Begins Allowed the Audience to Peer Behind the Cowl
Fifteen years after its original release, Batman Begins remains the best superhero origin story of all time. Batman Begins is understandably overshadowed by ...
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The Nightingale Imagines the Frontier as a Prison
NOTE: This piece contains spoilers for The Nightingale. In fiction, the frontier typically represents freedom. In Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, the frontier is ...
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In BlacKkKlansman & Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee Proposes a Radical Cinema of Empathy
This article contains minor spoilers for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods. Da 5 Bloods has been released on Netflix today. Taken together with ...
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Wonder Woman Asks What It Means to Be Good in a World That Is Not
Wonder Woman was released three years ago this weekend. After some initial scheduling shifts, Wonder Woman 1984 was planned to open this weekend. ...
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Harley Quinn’s Superpower Is Self-Awareness
DC Universe’s Harley Quinn is a unique hybrid. In terms of basic form and structure, Harley Quinn (the 2019 animated series) belongs to ...
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Clint Eastwood Has Spent Decades Embodying and Exploring American Masculinity
Clint Eastwood turned 90 years old yesterday and has a career that spans eight decades. He is one of the enduring embodiments of ...
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The Snyder Cut Has Already Achieved What It Needed to, Even If It Doesn’t Exist Yet
The Snyder Cut doesn’t even exist yet, and it has already accomplished most of what it is supposed to do. Warner Bros. announced ...
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The Clone Wars Celebrates the Prequel Trilogy as Its Own Distinct Version of Star Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars encapsulates the sense that, for an entire generation of Star Wars fans, the prequel trilogy was their own ...
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Game of Thrones Made Audiences Complicit in Daenerys’ Carnage
It’s been a year since the ending of Game of Thrones. You can tell because of all the various pieces being written about ...
