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  1. cannes 2024
    Terrible Billionaire Who Funded the Trump Movie Thought It Would Be PositiveReportedly “under the impression that it was a flattering portrayal of the 45th president.”
    By Nate Jones
  2. movies
    Oppenheimer’s Politics Are Good, ActuallyContrary to critics’ claims, the movie is soft on neither the Soviet Union or the American security state.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. barbie world politics
    This Barbie Is Not a GeopoliticianWarner Bros. addresses “childlike” map that got the film banned in Vietnam.
    By Zoe Guy
  4. what is elon musk?
    Musk and Trump and a Little Steve JobsThe characterological origins of Tony Stark.
    By Chris Lee
  5. encounter
    Platforming a Platformer of the DeplatformedThe premiere of Alex Lee Moyer’s new Alex Jones documentary is a blockbuster anti-Establishment crossover event.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  6. encounter
    Tribeca Festival’s Post-Film RebootJane Rosenthal has run it from the start and now has Murdoch money. And yes, it still shows movies.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  7. climate change
    Don’t Look Up Doesn’t Get the Climate CrisisIf stopping climate change just required cooperative billionaires and conscious voters, we’d already be saved.
    By Eric Levitz
  8. movies
    How The Matrix’s Red Pill Became the Internet’s Delusional Drug of ChoiceIt’s inspired a whole pharmacy’s worth of memes and cyberideologies — some playful, some hateful.
    By Max Read
  9. nomadland
    No Country for the Old: On Nomadland and Some Kind of HeavenTwo films — Nomadland and Some Kind of Heaven — present very different visions of aging in modern-day America.
    By Sarah Jones
  10. yang gang
    Andrew Yang Enters NYC Mayor’s Race With Darren Aronofsky–Directed Campaign VidHis first order of business? Bring TikTok Hype Houses to New York.
    By Chris Murphy
  11. holler aunts
    Who Is Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy For?The streamer’s piece of Oscar bait, based on J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir, is an exercise in elite arrogance.
    By Sarah Jones
  12. the coronavirus
    Dun Dun: New York City Resumes Film and TV Production on July 20Bill de Blasio said that “we want people to get their livelihoods back.”
    By Devon Ivie
  13. q&a
    A New Documentary Explores the Secrets and Lies of Roy CohnTrump mentor. Joe McCarthy protégé. AIDS victim. More than three decades after his death, he still haunts American life.
    By Carl Swanson
  14. coronavirus
    Close the Theaters. Close the Opera. Close the Concert Halls. Now.Yes, it will be brutal to the performing-arts economy. It’s also necessary.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. what?
    Trump Is Angry That Parasite Won Best Picture Instead of Gone With the WindIt’s so … metaphorical.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  16. the future issue
    In 2029, It’ll Be Harder to Write Science Fiction Because We’ll Be Living ItReality has grown unkind to our creators of dystopian fiction. It’s stealing their thunder.
    By James Gleick
  17. life in pixels
    Force Majeure Going Viral on Twitter Can Save CinemaOne Weird Trick for getting audiences to watch foreign and art house films.
    By Max Read
  18. the political corner
    Sorry, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Had to Cancel Her Sundance AppearanceBlame the shutdown.
    By Devon Ivie
  19. games
    The Most Radical Sports Film I’ve Ever SeenSteven Soderbergh’s High Flying Bird takes aim at the whole system.
    By Will Leitch
  20. politics
    Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Walked Out of ViceNice of them to make time to see a movie.
    By Lisa Ryan
  21. select all
    Review: Netflix’s Tau Is Not a Good Movie, But It Takes Place in a Nice HouseThere are a few moments when the horror gives way to almost hominess — when it’s a little less Saw and a little more Better Homes and Gardens.
    By Luke Burns
  22. select all
    ‘Our House Is Having a Nervous Breakdown!’: A Survey of Smart Homes in FilmIt can be thought-provoking and enlightening to examine how that technology is portrayed in works of fiction. It can also be silly and weird.
    By Luke Burns
  23. Why Red and Blue America Can’t Netflix and ChillOn Facebook, Hillary Clinton supporters’ favorite movie is Harry Potter, while Trump supporters prefer God’s Not Dead … or Jackass.
    By Eric Levitz
  24. games
    ESPN’s Eight-Hour O.J. Documentary Is a MasterpieceO.J.: Made in America is going to blow your mind.
    By Will Leitch
  25. Mississippi Isn’t Worried About BoycottsUnlike Georgia, it’s not vulnerable to pressure from Hollywood or major sports leagues.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. Disgraced Illinois ‘Hero’ Cop Spent Over $2,000 of Stolen Money on Movie TicketsCourt documents reveal that Fox Lake police lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz also spent his embezzled money on student-loan payments, porn, and eating out.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. really tied the village together
    Say Good-bye to NYC’s One-Stop Shop for Lebowski MerchThat about does ‘er, wraps ‘er all up.
    By Ben Ellman
  28. debates
    Will Intellectual Combat Ever Top Buckley-Vidal?As the superbly entertaining Best of Enemies shows, they don’t make ’em like those two anymore.
    By Jim Holt
  29. q&a
    Jon Stewart on 16 Years of The Daily Show and His Directorial Debut RosewaterWhat do you do after years spent creating an American comic institution? If you’re this comedian, you might make a movie about torture.
    By Chris Smith
  30. in conversation
    Jon Stewart on His Directorial Debut RosewaterWhat do you do after years spent turning a show into an American comic institution? If you’re this comedian, you might spend a summer making a movie about torture.
    By Chris Smith
  31. santa barbara shooting
    Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen Not Happy to Find Themselves Linked to UCSB ShooterBy the Washington Post’s film critic.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  32. the sports section
    Michael Rapaport on His Knicks FilmWhen the Garden Was Eden premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival tomorrow.
    By Joe DeLessio
  33. stuck in the mittle
    Mitt Romney Seems to Like That Mitt Romney Documentary If only it had been released during the campaign.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  34. it’s never too early to talk about 2016
    NBC’s Hillary Clinton Miniseries May Become a Fox Production Now that’s bipartisanship.
    By Delia Paunescu
  35. the governator
    Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Return to Magazine Editing What, you didn’t know he did that?
    By Andre Tartar
  36. neighborhood news
    The Ziegfeld Theatre Might CloseIt’s been for sale since May. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  37. local heroes
    Long Island’s 92-Year-Old Movie Bootlegger Is Untouchable Because he’s basically a saint.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  38. ink-stained wretches
    David Edelstein Reviews Page One: Inside the New York Times“What [filmmaker Andrew] Rossi misses is that until recently, the ‘Times’ was contemptuous of other media.”
    By Chris Rovzar
  39. party chat
    Bang Bang Club Star Ryan Phillippe: Dead Photographers Are ‘Not the Only People Who Have Suffered’The premiere of a doc about war photographers debuts at a sad time.
    By Bennett Marcus
  40. neighborhood news
    Most Despicable Manhattan Movie of the New Millennium Is Filming in BrooklynOf course?
    By Chris Rovzar
  41. controversy
    Paul Haggis Has Heard From Some Angry ScientologistsYou knew there’d be some fallout.
    By Julie Gerstein
  42. judgments
    Ed Koch Loves Cher, Doesn’t Think Christina Aguliera Is That HotThe former mayor of New York shares his thoughts on ‘Burlesque.’
    By Jessica Pressler
  43. the most important people in the world
    Let’s Count the Number of Bad Ideas in This ‘Page Six’ Item About Lydia HearstWe count four. How many can you spot?
    By Chris Rovzar
  44. motive
    David Mamet Convinced of Phil Spector’s InnocenceThe writer/director sheds a little light on why he chose to take on an HBO biopic of the imprisoned producer.
    By Avi Zenilman
  45. too big to fail
    So Who Gets to Be Hotter in the Too Big to Fail HBO Adaptation Than They Are in Real Life?Answer: most people.
    By Chris Rovzar
  46. party chat
    Robert De Niro Has Had the Same Trainer for 30 YearsMost leading males his age haven’t even had the same WIFE for 30 years.
    By Bennett Marcus
  47. fi-cri fallout
    Demi Moore As Qualified As Anyone for High-Ranking Position at Financial FirmThe actress did rigorous research for her role as a chief risk officer of a financial firm in ‘Margin Call.’
    By Jessica Pressler
  48. weird al greene
    Alvin Greene Wants Denzel Washington to Play Him in MovieThe Senate candidate “has received calls from all over the world.”
    By Josh Duboff
  49. chat room
    Filmmaker Gets Into The PitThrown into a pit and brutalized by commodities traders, Johanna Lee emerged with a documentary.
    By Andrew Tavani
  50. sexandthecitymania!
    Magnolia Bakery Booted From Sex and the City Bus ToursIt’s the end of an era.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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