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The Drama pales next to Oshima’s masterpiece.

An anti-Hamilton blowout hits the screen.

Brand New Day offers the same old banality.

Eli Roth satirizes Hollywood’s idea of confection.

Hadestown caters to Broadway’s political cult.

Clearing away the conservative obsession with Christopher Nolan.

Christopher Nolan’s unheroic epic alters the history of movie-watching.

Why scorn triumphalism when talking about American movies that conquered the world?

Moviegoers defend themselves against media tyranny.

In the Hand of Dante mocks itself — but Pacino and Scorsese bail it out.

Disney versus desire in two fantasy films.

Disclosure, distraction, deception, and slop.

UFC Freedom 250 patriotism gets a media blackout.

Spielberg betrays the movies — and himself.

Auto-fiction meets social and spiritual realism.

Form and feeling set modern morality to music.

The return of the Toxic Male.

Discovering the showbiz roots of vox-pop commentary.

A biopic’s machinations restore the charisma of a mass folk hero.

How Secretary Hegseth strategized the war of cultural ownership.

A reboot so true it’s funny.

The anniversary of Hollywood’s worst newspaper movie.

Millennial filmmakers reduce the past to cynicism.

CBS and the NAACP’s agenda bend the media.

François Ozon reinterprets the Camus classic.

A musical confession that echoes art and politics.

Hipster documentary Marc by Sofia records fame and privilege in these times.

How One Battle roots for a race war.

Selling unironic junk and political mania to children.

Embarrassing stats for the mediocre Sinners.