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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Season 1)
Written by Anna Harrison
“Adaptations of George R. R. Martin’s work have been, historically, uneven. “Game of Thrones” works for at least four seasons as a television series, but fundamentally fails to understand the thematic thrust of Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. “House of the Dragon,” on the other hand, understands the…
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Project Hail Mary
Written by Taylor Baker
“Lord and Miller, after being away for 12 years, have made an exceptionally broad and watchable film with a star (Ryan Gosling) whose affability and vulnerability find a serviceable home in…”
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Game of Thrones Retrospective: “Lord Snow”
Written by Anna Harrison
““Lord Snow” lets us take our time, smell the roses, and is all the better for it. With each episode, we grow closer to the characters and the world becomes more understandable; luckily, Benioff and Weiss take their time in this first season, and the show is all the richer for…
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Written by Livvy O’Brien
“The star of the film might just be the Baker house itself, a space that feels so authentically cluttered and lived-in. The walls are a curated gallery of the children’s paintings and artwork and the windows bear the faint smudges of little hands. There are no matching dish sets, instead…”
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The Smashing Machine
Written by Patrick Hao
“Kerr is a hulking man, mainly torso, who spoke softly and thought deeply – the antithesis of the macho confident image that you would associate with a man of his size, or, in this case, the Hollywood star that would play him, Dwayne Johnson.”
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Game of Thrones Retrospective: “The Kingsroad”
Written by Anna Harrison
“In this single cut from the condemned direwolf to Bran’s opened eyes, we see the benefits of a filmed adaptation. Within Martin’s limited POV structure in “ASOIAF,” this moment cannot exist; while he positions these chapters (Eddard III and Bran III) side-by-side, the juxtaposition is not nearly as strong…”
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Written by Anna Harrison
“For the first time, Blanc encounters someone who challenges him; while Blanc scoffs at church and religion, Jud forces him to recognize the good it can do…”
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Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad)
Written by Eric Zhu
“Shot in telephoto long takes with little to no acknowledgment of an outside world, Serra once again works in the present, but molds reality into something elemental and timeless. In a way, the film is…”
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Game of Thrones Retrospective: “Winter Is Coming”
Written by Anna Harrison
“Being one of those annoying people who have complexes about reading the source material before watching the adaptation, I simply had to read Martin’s work before dipping my toe into the show. I devoured them with a passion I had scarcely felt from my “Harry Potter” days, and then attempted to…
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Wicked: For Good
Written by Anna Harrison
“Before Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked: For Good” even begins—with Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) fighting to free the animals of Oz and expose the Wizard’s (Jeff Goldblum) treachery—it has already run into one deadly, unavoidable problem: act two of “Wicked” is just not very good…”
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Die My Love
Written by Anna Harrison
“I am, for better or worse, one of those people who enjoys reading source material before watching an adaptation. Often, I find that it enhances my viewing experience, and this habit has made me a better filmgoer and critic as it has forced me to think about what sets the written…
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Wicked
Written by Anna Harrison
“Who among us has not talked about “holding space” in the past year? How many Glinda or Elphaba costumes did we see at Halloween this year?…”
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Good Fortune
Written by Anna Harrison
“Aziz Ansari’s “Good Fortune” is the latest in that long line of heavenly stories, featuring the angel Gabriel (Keanu Reeves)—no, not that one—whose illustrious job is to stop the denizens of Los Angeles from texting and driving…”
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Weapons
Written by Alexander Reams
“All of it plays out as if it would in real life; every single parent is scared and looks for somewhere to put their fear, and Garner holds that weight as the emotional anchor of the film, and Cregger smartly ties her to the…”
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Anemone
Written by Anna Harrison
“About twenty minutes into “Anemone,” Sean Bean tells Daniel Day-Lewis that the latter has skid marks on his underwear, and then Daniel Day-Lewis launches into a monologue about all the laxatives he took so he could shit on a priest who molested him as a kid. Whilst going into detail about…
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