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Arts And Culture
Aparna Nancherla Is My Favorite Impostor
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Soraya Roberts
October 18, 2023
Arts And Culture
Joanna Arnow’s Time Has Arrived
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Soraya Roberts
October 4, 2023
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Arts And Culture
I’m A Card-Carrying Member Of Maria Bamford’s Cult
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Soraya Roberts
September 15, 2023
Arts And Culture
It Takes More Than Fancy Clothes To Be The Best-Dressed Show On TV
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Soraya Roberts
September 6, 2023
Arts And Culture
Have You Seen Skyler Gisondo?
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Soraya Roberts
August 24, 2023
Arts And Culture
Is An Independent Hollywood Possible?
90
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Soraya Roberts
August 2, 2023
Defector At The Movies
‘Dead Reckoning’ Knows Exactly Who We Need Behind The Wheel
176
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Soraya Roberts
July 14, 2023
Arts And Culture
I Just Want To Go To A Concert
331
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Soraya Roberts
July 4, 2023
Arts And Culture
“You Knew It Was Something Really Nasty”: How The Art Department Brings ‘I Think You Should Leave’ To Life
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Soraya Roberts
June 13, 2023
TV
Why ‘The Other Two’ Is So Good
92
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Soraya Roberts
June 5, 2023
Defector At The Movies
‘BlackBerry’ Director Matt Johnson Is Not Wearing An Outfit
128
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Soraya Roberts
May 17, 2023
Defector At The Movies
Indie Cinema Is Now Genre Cinema
104
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Soraya Roberts
May 10, 2023
TV
Steven Yeun Knows What To Do With How He Looks
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Soraya Roberts
April 28, 2023
Arts And Culture
‘Cry Wolf’ Shows How Easy It Is To Blame The Victim
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Soraya Roberts
April 11, 2023
TV
TV Is Thinking Of Ending Things
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Soraya Roberts
March 24, 2023
Defector At The Movies
How 1995’s ‘Party Girl’ Became The First Movie To Premiere Online
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Soraya Roberts
March 10, 2023
Arts And Culture
AI Art Only Looks Like Art If You Don’t Care
155
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Soraya Roberts
February 20, 2023
Defector At The Movies
Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nod Is A Nomination For The Past
141
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Soraya Roberts
February 6, 2023
Chefector
I’ll Have What No One Is Having
43
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Soraya Roberts
January 16, 2023
Defector At The Movies
An Interview With The Cop Who Stole ‘M3GAN’
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Soraya Roberts
January 12, 2023
Defector At The Movies
Please Remove Me From This List
236
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Soraya Roberts
December 15, 2022
Defector At The Movies
Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Or That Christina Applegate Is Now Older Than Her
138
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Soraya Roberts
December 9, 2022
Music
Why Is Bryan Adams’s “Summer Of ’69” The Only Song On My Radio?
295
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Soraya Roberts
November 25, 2022
Music
The Internet’s Biggest Jack Antonoff Hater Explains Himself
299
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Soraya Roberts
October 26, 2022
Defector At The Movies
Let’s Just Crown Justin Long The Toxic Horror King
72
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Soraya Roberts
October 20, 2022
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