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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it’s nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United…

No number of internal task forces is going to cure Meta’s propensity to harm. Credit: Michael Mandiberg I don’t often agree with the editorial board at the Washington Post, but I did last week. An editorial over the holiday weekend…

As college football approaches playoff season, merit and committee opinion seem at odds. Credit: chensiyuan Another exciting college football season is in its stretch run, and on Sunday a 13-member “expert” committee will decree which teams will receive the four…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Long before Bradley Cooper made his big screen début in “Wet Hot American Summer,” and before he played Phil Wenneck, the wise-ass Jägermeister-swilling schoolteacher in “The Hangover,” he wanted to direct.…

The latest suicide statistics are a report from the void. Credit: By Vincent van Gogh – scan by user:Mefusbren69 Per provisional numbers released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, the United States hit a suicide record in 2022:…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.”Photograph courtesy Apple TV+ Americans are so used to seeing history played by Americans that the oddity of it hardly registers anymore. Charlton Heston was the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the most graceful experiences I’ve had at the movies this year is the last part of “Monster,” the drama directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda that’s currently in theatres, but it…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In April, 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade made it legal nationwide, New York passed the most expansive abortion law in the U.S. Three other states passed similar bills in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For a master class in performance, look no further than Todd Haynes’s new film, “May December,” which arrives on Netflix on December 1st. Julianne Moore plays Gracie, who was the subject…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In a short story that serves as the preface to “Dream About Nothing,” Bobby Doherty’s new book of photographs, the writer Lauren Cook narrates the thoughts of a protagonist who, on…