Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz is like a Fabergé fidget cube, its many contraptions and bells and whistles held together by so much humor and whimsy and craft as to be almost deliriously entertaining.
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Justin Hairston works in marketing in New York City, where he's engaged in the perpetual struggle to intellectualize his obsessions with basketball, television, and movies. He can be reached on letterboxd at @justinh94.
The creators behind Sing Sing—director Greg Kwedar, co-writer Clint Bentley, and producer Monique Walton—on telling stories, hard-won optimism, and the necessity of art.
Over its two seasons, Patriot traces that meteoric descent with a humanist’s touch, turning international espionage into quotidian drama and grounding the global politics of nuclear armament in the mundane specifics of industrial piping workplaces and father-son dynamics.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, takes the classic structures of a Christie caper and levels them up, building an impossibly polyhedral monument to all that a mystery can be.
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