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Adam Nayman

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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Is Beautifully Implausible

Thirty years ago, on a not very special episode of Friends (“The One With Frank Jr.,” for the record) Ross and Rachel swapped “Celebrity...

22.07.2026 1

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Maddie’s Secret Is a Brilliant Melodrama of Social Media Stardom

The alt-comedy-to-auteur-pipeline keeps pumping away: Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, Bo Burnham, and now John Early. The 38-year-old stand-up and...

16.06.2026 8

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The Poet Among Putin’s Wolves

The title of Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel, The Wizard of the Kremlin, knowingly evokes vividly Technicolored Hollywood fantasies: There’s no...

08.06.2026 10

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The Christophers Puts an Unrepentant Art Monster Through His Paces

Art, it has been said, is never finished, only abandoned. Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Christophers, works around the edges of this idea. Its...

10.04.2026 8

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The Drama Has a Big Reveal—and a Strangely Anodyne Effect

Films don’t come much more self-consciously provocative than Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. It’s a cautionary tale...

03.04.2026 10

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The Last Human Oscars?

The In Memoriam segment of this year’s Academy Award ceremonies lasted for 15 minutes. On a night when several winners’ speeches were cut...

16.03.2026 10

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The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother

16.01.2026 10

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The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation

22.12.2025 40

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Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet

12.12.2025 20

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The Broadway Allure of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon

14.11.2025 20

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Sentimental Value Is an Upper-Middle-Brow Crowd Pleaser

07.11.2025 20

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After the Hunt Would Like to Touch a Nerve

17.10.2025 20

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Jafar Panahi’s Revenge Road Trip Masterpiece

14.10.2025 10

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The Lackluster Return of Spinal Tap

12.09.2025 20

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The Enigma of Clint Eastwood

04.09.2025 10

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Honey Don’t! Is All Dressed Up With No Place to Go

22.08.2025 10

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The Late-Capitalist Menace at the Heart of Cloud

22.07.2025 10

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Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme Embraces the Modest Pleasures

30.05.2025 20

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Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance

13.05.2025 10

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