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Alissa Wilkinson

Alissa Wilkinson

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The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in 10 years, is ostensibly based on a book: Martin Amis’s stomach-churning 2014 novel of the...

16.12.2023 3

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Priscilla and Sofia Coppola’s lonely girls

Sofia Coppola’s heroines are surrounded by people and lonely as hell, enveloped in a cage visible only to them. The Priscilla of Priscilla is maybe...

10.11.2023 2

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The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

The Hollywood actors’ strike is finally ending. Late in the evening on November 8 — 118 days after walking off set — SAG-AFTRA, the union for...

09.11.2023 2

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Hollywood is missing the big picture on the opioid crisis

From its first moments, Pain Hustlers sets out to distinguish itself from the pack of recent series and movies about the opioid crisis with one simple...

08.11.2023 9

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The Curse is a fully bizarre and brilliant maze of a show

Few things are more irksome than the contemporary impulse (I think we can blame it on Lost) to decode every TV show as though it’s a puzzle to be...

07.11.2023 1

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The surprising science that explains why we love thrillers

I’ve been writing about movies for a long time, but even I find myself with a lot of questions that go unanswered. Why do my palms get sweaty when I...

30.10.2023 2

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What the end of Killers of the Flower Moon means

To paraphrase Soren Kierkegaard: A movie must be watched forward, but the best movies beg to be understood backward. Killers of the Flower Moon ,...

21.10.2023 9

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The wisest choice in Killers of the Flower Moon

There are many ways to tell a story, especially one that really happened, and this fact has lately tugged at Martin Scorsese’s mind. In movies like...

17.10.2023 5

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The actors strike negotiations have broken down

The Hollywood writers strike officially ended on Tuesday, October 10, when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to ratify its contract with the...

12.10.2023 2

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Why aren’t we watching more short films?

The short film is a neglected form of American entertainment, prevalent — you can find them most anywhere, and pretty much every filmmaker has made...

09.10.2023 10

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Cat Person, Fair Play, and Brett Kavanaugh

Cat Person — the movie adaptation of the New Yorker short story that took over your Twitter feed in December 2017 — starts with a now-familiar...

07.10.2023 10

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On The Royal Hotel, Louis C.K., and burning it all down

Six years ago, almost to the day, I sat in a Toronto movie theater and watched Louis C.K.’s directorial debut, a winking Woody Allen tribute...

06.10.2023 10

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The new Exorcist movie proves how much the world has changed since 1973

The identity of the titular, singular “exorcist” of The Exorcist has always been a little murky. In the 1973 original — which overcame studio...

06.10.2023 10

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The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strike has ended. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 — after 146 days of labor stoppage, the...

27.09.2023 1

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Two young missionaries made headlines. Two new docs look at why.

We aren’t born knowing who the heroes are. We’re taught to see them, instilled with desires to wear their cape, don their uniform, doff their...

26.09.2023 6

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The Hollywood writers strike may finally be ending

Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strikes may finally be coming to an end. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 – after 146 days of...

25.09.2023 10

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The movies to watch for this fall

Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what...

21.09.2023 2

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What’s the state of the Hollywood strikes?

Trying to figure out what’s going on with the Hollywood double strike — both writers and actors are still on the picket lines — can feel like...

18.09.2023 1

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22 movies to watch for this fall

Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what...

16.09.2023 5

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Movies normalize men’s bad behavior. Can they deconstruct it, too?

Six years ago, almost to the day, I sat in a Toronto movie theater and watched Louis C.K.’s directorial debut, a winking Woody Allen tribute...

13.09.2023 4

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Artificial intelligence: A love story

07.09.2023 2

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