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200 words about One Battle After Another
They say you’re supposed to grow more conservative as you get older, that parenting turns you safe and boring.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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198 words about The Materialists
Credit A24’s marketing for making me expect a sparkling comedy of manners in the vein of Whit Stillman or (sorry) Woody Allen when instead what The Materialists offers is an incredibly dour and never ...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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200 words about Donkey Kong Bananza
There is an idea of “game feel” — the specific way that mechanics, animation, sound, and the tactile experience of holding a controller intersect.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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199 words about The Last Samurai
Released before and bearing no relation to the Tom Cruise movie that stole its name, The Last Samurai dramatizes the relationship between two of the most enjoyable people I’ve ever encountered in fict...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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196 words about Eddington
Ari Aster has now released a great movie, a good movie, a bad movie, and an okay movie, in that order; the trendline isn’t good, but I remain a believer.
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August 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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199 words about Burial
Burial's first two albums were, among other things, masterpieces of world-building, dystopian but sensual.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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189 words about Rashomon
I believe this movie takes place at the end of the world.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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195 words about KPop Demon Hunters
“The future belongs to crowds,” Don DeLillo wrote in Mao II, and while he wasn’t talking about KPop Demon Hunters he wasn’t not talking about it, either.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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195 words about the Clipse
“You can hop but you won’t always be hip,” noted flautist Andre 3000 once said of his decision to retire from rapping.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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198 words about Mario Kart World
Discourse-impervious, Mario Kart World (anecdotally) enraptures a room of people of mixed age, background, and interest level like no videogame since Wii Sports, straight up.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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