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Movie Review: An “Anniversary” that Democracy Shouldn’t Celebrate, but Dread

Critics — the thinking ones anyway — have been wearing out the phrase “a movie of its moment” these past couple of years. A leader out to tear the country to pieces surfed a tidal wave of oligarch money, ignorance … Continue reading

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Series Review: Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full” becomes an Oversexed Cracker Cartoon for Netflix

Tom Wolfe’s darkly comic 1998 novel “A Man in Full” comes to the screen, courtesy of another king of ’80s and ’90s entertainment, TV writer/producer David E. Kelley. The book, uneven but page-turning trash encompassing Wolfe’s favorite themes — class, … Continue reading

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