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Sundance 2023: Sometimes I Think About Dying, The Pod Generation, birth/rebirth
It’s always tempting to look for themes at a festival like Sundance, one that has often reflected the anxieties of the nation with more urgency than some other events simply through the quick turnaround of the indie film scene. And so what do the first three films I screened at Sundance this year say about…
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Missing
“Missing” isn’t exactly a sequel to “Searching,” but rather another installment in what feels like a burgeoning Searching Cinematic Universe. It features a brief reference to the mystery within the 2018 hit film during a breathless, early montage, part of an amalgamation of sights and sounds that puts us on edge from the very start.…
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When You Finish Saving The World
There’s a moment in “When You Finish Saving the World,” written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg (based on his 2019 audiobook), when Evelyn (Julianne Moore), a rigid, fragile social worker who brings “good intentions gone awry” to a new level, declares, “I am constantly striving to have my character live up to my ideals!” This…
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The Wandering Earth II
Time runs out in carefully marked units in the mainland Chinese sci-fi disaster pic “The Wandering Earth II,” a sturdy prequel to the record-smashing adaptation of Liu Cixin’s novel. In “The Wandering Earth II,” the apocalyptic problems faced by this movie’s Chinese characters—along with their international peers from the United Earth Government (UEG)—have already happened.…
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T-Mobile admits to 37,000,000 customer records stolen by “bad actor”
Once more, it’s time for Shakespeare’s words: Once more unto the breach…
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This Au Kouign-Amann Recipe Is Worth Making
I made this Breton-style cake at least half a dozen times to perfect it. Here’s what it taught me about grief.
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Mini bottles of Fireball aren’t actually whiskey, leading to a lawsuit
The Fireball for sale at places that can’t sell liquor is different than the stuff you buy at the liquor store — and that’s misleading, a lawsuit alleges.
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News organizations were sure David Crosby was dead. Then they weren’t.
Crosby’s brief existential ambiguity illustrated an old conflict in newsrooms: the need for speed versus the obligation to be correct.
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Don’t watch ‘The Parent Test’ for the competition. Watch for the conversation.
ABC’s new reality competition show “The Parent Test” judges differing child-rearing techniques, but the best thing about the show is the discussion it sparks.
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Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.
The industry’s recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash.