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Trying To Save Emilia Pérez From Itself
On Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Pérez'
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Stand Up for Better Oscar Bait!
On Edward Berger's 'Conclave'
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Architecting a Myth
On the Brutalism of 'The Brutalist'
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Teenage Dreaming
On Shuchi Talati’s 'Girls Will Be Girls'
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Thirsty for Piss
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Shame, Sex, and the Female Body
On 'The Substance' and 'Babygirl'
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Sniping for Love
On Derrickson and Dean's 'The Gorge'
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The Poet of the New Gothic
On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'
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When You Ain't Got Nothing
On Bob Dylan and 'A Complete Unknown'
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Would You Rather Have Married Young?
Lena Dunham, Sally Rooney, and The End of Experience
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Interstellar Ineptitude
On Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital'
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Paperback Vibrators and the Pragmatic Evasions of Literary Men
On Gender in Contemporary Fiction
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