The beauty of a spectacle like Riverdale is that it’s the Tom Cruise of TV, skewing wildly in quality and influence, but never once doubting itself. Read More
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JoinedMay 28, 2017
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"Based on an actual lie.” That’s how Lulu Wang’s new film The Farewell starts out, before China-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) returns to Changchun as her family prepares to say goodbye to their matriarch Nai Nai, who’s been diagnosed with cancer.
The one catch: Nai Nai doesn’t know she’s sick. Read More
Although The Terror frequently builds itself around the isolation of its characters, with wide shots of lithic tundras stretching as far as the eye can see, it’s so often about their connection too. Read More
Zosha Millman sits down with writer/director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fisher to discuss Eighth Grade, why middle schoolers care so much about everything, and why it was important to light the film with natural cellphone brightness. Read More
After its first season, The Americans stopped being a sexy show, and started being a seductive one. Read More
On Robin Williams, depression, and The Birdcage Read More
The whole thing is a fever dream, but like any dream, it has a kind of logic to it that dances just beyond our grasp. Read More
Star Trek uniquely bridges and predicts the flow of sci-fi over the latter half of the 20th century. Read More
Into every generation, an “it girl” is born. Read More
It’s always felt like Ghibli movies understood what it meant to grow up as a girl, still unconvinced by the world that she has to fight for everything she has. Read More
Coded into our inflections and pronunciations are our experiences of race, gender, class—life. Read More