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5 Days of Oscar Docs: Fire of Love
A week-long guide to the Academy Awards' strongest and most overlooked category.
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Sam Adams
5 Days of Oscar Docs: Navalny
A week-long guide to the Academy Awards' strongest and most overlooked category.
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Sam Adams
5 Days of Oscar Docs: A House Made of Splinters
A week-long guide to the Academy Awards' strongest and most overlooked category.
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Sam Adams
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5 Days of Oscar Docs: All That Breathes
A week-long guide to the Academy Awards' strongest and most overlooked category.
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Sam Adams
5 Days of Oscar Docs: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
A week-long guide to the Academy Awards' strongest and most overlooked category.
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Sam Adams
The 14 Best Movies of Sundance 2023
From the slopes to the sofa, this was the good stuff.
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Sam Adams

January 2023

Nine Sundance movies to watch at home
Notes on a film festival without FOMO.
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Sam Adams
A Horror Movie About How Algorithms Are Dumb
Plus, one of the most brilliantly frustrating documentaries ever made.
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Sam Adams
The Best Things I Wrote in 2022
The year in ... me.
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Sam Adams

December 2022

How to Make a Top 10 List
The best movies of 2022, and some thoughts on the whole decimal enterprise.
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What's Up Tonight? or, Why No One Knows When Anything Is Anymore
On the demands of an on-demand world.
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Aubrey Plaza, Lowkey Generational Icon
On The White Lotus, Emily the Criminal, and what might be the ultimate millennial career.
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Sam Adams
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