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Drinking men's tears with a paper straw to save the planet. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN. To call men pigs or dogs more often than not does disservice to pigs and dogs, noble contributors both, though not without their faults. More apt to group them/us with ducks, whose inveterate gang rape I have observed and remain traumatized by, or a particularly nasty virus. Such comparisons are closer to the portrait of the male of the species painted by Emerald Fennell's feature debut, wherein they are held to the most basic standards — be not monsters — and consistently found criminally wanting. Their in...

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Mood. The first quarter of almost any normal year yields very little from the movie watching perspective, at least theatrically. The sprint to screen awards contenders in New York and Los Angeles having ended with the ringing in of the new year, the ensuing months become a sort of protracted sloughing-off of the dead weight of the previous 12 months (or longer). The miscalculated prestige pictures, the reboots without an audience, the movies of potential interest gone sour with excessive tinkering; the low, gray months are when projects too expensive to be thrown away are thrust into the mark...

Seeing COVID-19 deniers pull up for the vaccine. LET THEM ALL TALK. It certainly wasn't the biggest (or worst) news of the year but the recent announcement by Warner Bros. that the studio would be releasing its entire 2021 slate simultaneously in theaters and on the HBOMax streaming platform has produced no small amount of hand-wringing and outcry. Prominent directors — including Christopher Nolan, whose insistence that his Tenet be released theatrically in the midst of the pandemic may well have heralded the death of the modern moviegoing experience — have mounted the battlements to dec...

That little girl knows we shouldn't be gathering. HAPPIEST SEASON. Having made no secret of my childlike but abiding love of Christmas movies and despite our conventional notions of time and meaningful dates of demarcation having slipped away in 2020, I feel compelled to watch them. Maybe it's a passive version of the denial that has led swaths of the populace to wantonly infect each other, maybe a minor act of nostalgia — hard to say. But the tree is trimmed, stockings by the chimney (not far from a similar display of masks), the door is bolted ...