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The Last Five Years (2014)

In the late ‘90s, musical playwright Jason Robert Brown married an actress named Terri O’Neill.

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The Housemaid (2025)

It might just be my undying love for Freaks and Geeks, but I’ll basically always show up for a Paul Feig joint

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The Princess Bride (1987)

Rob Reiner and William Goldman baked a little magic trick into The Princess Bride that I don’t think I fully appreciated as a kid

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Persuasion (2007)

Since I responded very powerfully to Emma (2020) a few years ago, I’ve gradually become a Jane Austen appreciator.

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Blue Moon (2025)

The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.

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Hamnet (2025)

The world needs weepies.

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The Perfect Neighbor (2025)

It’s not often you can honestly describe a film as both “exploitative” and “restrained,” but The Perfect Neighbor lives in an unsettling overlap — and gets a lot of its magnetic power from the fact that it pushes past tasteful boundaries in some areas pulls back in others.

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Sentimental Value (2025)

Every time a Scandinavian director gets praised for making a film “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” I brace myself for two hours of immaculate misery and a big, chilly lesson about how people are flawed and feelings are difficult.

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Wicked: For Good (2025)

In 2006, Pitchfork published a review of the album Shine On by Jet with a 0.0 score.

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Wicked (2024)

Imagine me trying, through sheer force of will like Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave, to push this into “Good” territory.