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“Perfect Days” and the Perils of Minimalism

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fantasy comes in many forms, and one of them arises when a work of scrupulous realism strains plausibility to the point that it plays like mere wish fulfillment. The German director…

The Dark Delights of a Millennial “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the opening minutes of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s minor-key remix of the 2005 film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married, duelling assassins—the series symbolically…

Canceling All Russians Is the Opposite of Clever

State of the Union: The West could have courted sympathetic and apolitical Russians; instead we demonize them for their ethnicity. Credit: WikiCommons It took less than three weeks for Serbian actor Milos Bikovic to lose his job on the HBO…