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On March 5, in a piece about the Screen Actors Guild Awards, I offered, en passant, an exquisitely nuanced critical…

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If you’re like me, you’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with the annual Academy Awards telecast — and, for that matter,…

Well, it’s been a hell of a week, and I feel like I missed most of it. Regular readers of…

When I wrote my recent essay for this magazine about the death of beauty in cinema, I didn’t mean the…

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Gone are the days when parents could turn on the Disney Channel or a Disney movie and walk away. A…