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We Are the Robots
Machines are mirrors for humanity in two new films and a recent play.
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Encounters with East and West
Salesman in China and Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days are brilliant cultural mirrors.
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Meeting David Lynch on the Dreaming Plane
The director who plumbed the dark depths of consciousness died this week.
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How “The Brutalist” Brutalizes History
And everything else the supposed “masterpiece” touches.
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Seeing Through a Monster’s Eyes
The Zone of Interest is a very different kind of horror, and Holocaust, film.
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Dune’s Dark Destinies
A new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s cult classic asks whether heroes truly get to choose their fate.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—Or Not
Napoleon, Oppenheimer, and other historic figures shrink on the silver screen.
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Barbie and the Franken-Feminists
The recent films Barbie and Poor Things try to reinvent the woman—and fail.
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Wes Anderson, Maturing Auteur
In Asteroid City, directorial control competes with the free play that gives life to cinema.
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The Oscars’ Night of the Living Dead
Dead sentiments walking at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.
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