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Issue 91: Best of 2020

January 2021

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed and The Good Lord Bird

Gunfighter of the Gospel

Julia Selinger·
Issue 91: Best of 2020
First Reformed and The Good Lord Bird can best be linked by a common, disheartening truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Read More
Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) | art by Tony Stella

How Sweet It Is: Dick Johnson Is Dead

Joel Mayward·
Issue 91: Best of 2020
Dick Johnson Is Dead wisely holds the mystery of human mortality with a generous open hand, affirming our pain while reminding us of grace. Read More
Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman | art by Tony Stella

Love, Friendship, and Vengeance: Reimagining Romance in Promising Young Woman

Jordan Crucchiola·
Issue 91: Best of 2020
Along with being a damn entertaining ride, an understanding of the vital intimacy between women makes Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman feel gorgeously, confrontationally female. Read More
His House | Netflix

Strange Country

Adefisayo Adeyeye·
Issue 91: Best of 2020
In His House, the spirit haunts, inhabiting space the same way a thought takes up residence in the mind. Worry, fears—these are ghosts. There and not there. False and yet very real.  Read More
Crestone (2020)

The Soundcloud Rappers at the End of the World

Jessica McGoff·
Issue 91: Best of 2020
It’s not important to distinguish what is truth and what is fiction in Crestone; the collapsing of these boundaries is what gives Marnie Ellen Hertzler's documentary the same sense of apocalypse we've felt this past year, perceptively real in its feeling of unreality. Read More

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