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A 2022 The Line of Best Fit interview with musician Britt Daniel vs. a 2025 RogerEbert.com interview with filmmaker Euzhan Palcy.
The Perfect Couple isn’t the worst thing that Nicole Kidman has appeared in, but it distills everything wrong with the current streaming economy.
The Four Seasons is too frequently unpleasant to ever feel like escapism.
The second season of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is the best television show of 2025.
Evergreen articles about declining literacy are still eye-popping. What year is it (#558)?
Disclaimer is proof that television is a medium best suited for showrunners, not auteurist directors.
Bad Monkey isn't groundbreaking, but it's still a refreshing and self-aware series.
A 1999 The Missouri Review interview with author Ernest J. Gaines vs. a 2001 Index Magazine interview with actress Scarlett Johansson.
Are kids today allowed to eat candy?
A 2022 New Yorker interview with Mary Gaitskill vs. a 2010 Evergreen Review interview with painter Robert Motherwell.
Landman is Taylor Sheridan’s most unfiltered, gleefully ridiculous commentary on American ethos.
It may be soapy, but The Gilded Age has designed a model that’s made to last.
Dying beast gets one more jab.
Apple TV+’s Dope Thief is a compelling low-level crime thriller that’s transformed into a generic family drama.
It’s time to select God’s franchise player.
Is there a hidden mechanism of existence?
John Carter knew there’s no negotiating with death cults.
Natalie Portman and Jennifer Connelly!
Manly vignette found in womanly book.
If only today’s corporations gave out seedlings.
They’ll listen to the truth from God, Ezra Klein, or Jon Stewart, not from Musk.
Fry talks to Crumb and his biographer about the cartoonist's life.
The actors talk about their religion in this talk show from the 1980s.
The actor talks about the audition process and more in this interview recorded at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
The actor talks candidly about his alcoholism and his return to the stage with Equus.
The actor talks about The White Lotus and his anxiety over spoiling the finale.
The cinematographer at work behind the scenes of David Lynch's final major work.
Mike White and the cast talk about the end of Season 3.
The late actor talks about Marlon Brando and more in this October 2, 1996 interview.
The writer talks about his extraordinary biography on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.