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Issue 79: Best of 2019

January 2020

Bojack Horseman | Netflix

BoJack Horseman and Ibsen: Prestige Television’s Greatest Trick

Derrick Brak·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Neither BoJack Horseman nor the plays of Henrik Ibsen tell stories about magic, but the ways in which creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has woven the playwright into his show is a narrative trick as good as any.
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I Think You Should Leave, or: How I Learned to Sate My Existential Dread with The Absurd

Brianna Zigler·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Whenever I put on I Think You Should Leave, its bedlam feels like a weighted blanket—a brief and soothing respite from the horrible truths of the outside world.
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Pain and Glory (2019) | Sony Pictures Classics

Consciousness and Creativity in Pain and Glory

George Kowalik·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory is a film unapologetically about films, where the subject is equal parts passion and profession, addiction and therapy.
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Ghost Stories: On Honey Boy and Doctor Sleep

Nathan Frontiero·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Honey Boy and Doctor Sleep bleed from the same heart, an intimate diptych about abused boys who grow into men haunted by and reaching for their fathers.
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Song Lang (2018) | HKLGFF

In Song Lang, A World of Refugee Memory

Victoria Huynh·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Queer people, refugees, those of us displaced from the linearity of the present who love people and places long gone: we’re always time traveling. We journey between the possible and impossible by way of memory, and art emerges in the crossing.
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The Beach Bum (2019) | art by Tony Stella

In The Year of The Impossible Object

Ethan Warren·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
The way we experience movies shapes the way we experience life, and to experience a movie like The Beach Bum, to ingest and absorb this much giddy existential gratitude, strikes at least this viewer as quite a blessing.
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Robert De Niro in THE IRISHMAN (2019) | art by Tony Stella

It’s What It Is

Kellie Herson·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Instead of taking issue with the facts of what Frank Sheeran tells us, The Irishman unravels the way he positions himself within his account.
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Chris Pine in KNIVES OUT | art by Brianna Ashby

My House, My Coffee, My Rules

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Kelsey Ford on murder mysteries, gentleman sleuths, and Rian Johnson's Knives Out.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD | art by Brianna Ashby

Still Here

Travis Woods·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
A Journey Through The Funky Fanfare of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
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It Chapter Two (2019) | Warner Bros. Pictures

The Burning of Beverly Marsh

Andie Newell·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
There was no shortage of enthralling female protagonists in 2019, many in films much more engaging than It Chapter Two—but Beverly Marsh is the one I keep coming back to.
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