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Defector At The Movies

Defector At The Movies

‘F1: The Movie’ Is Great If Your Favorite Part Of Racing Is All The Corporate Logos

July 3, 2025

Defector At The Movies

A Good Marriage Plot Needs Real Stakes

By Kelsey McKinney

June 16, 2025

Arts And Culture

If Tom Cruise REALLY Loved Movies, He Would Let Me Watch Him Die

May 30, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘Mission: Impossible’ Must Finally Reckon With Tom Cruise’s Ego

By Nicholas Russell

May 23, 2025

Defector At The Movies

Spike Lee’s Malcolm X Still Lives

By Israel Daramola

May 21, 2025

Defector At The Movies

‘The Shrouds’ Is David Cronenberg’s Typically Prescient Epitaph For Our Present And His Career

By Violet Lucca

May 15, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘Friendship’ Can’t Sustain The Relationship

By Soraya Roberts

May 15, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘Drop’ Is Not A ’90s Thriller Because The ’90s Are Unfortunately Over

By Soraya Roberts

April 11, 2025

Arts And Culture

Watching ‘Secret Mall Apartment’ In The Secret Apartment Mall

By Alex Sujong Laughlin

April 3, 2025

Arts And Culture

Remembering Val Kilmer In Five Movies

By Israel Daramola

April 2, 2025

Arts And Culture

A Small Gene Hackman Memory for You

March 6, 2025

Arts And Culture

Society Can’t Quit The Oscars

By Israel Daramola

March 3, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘Nickel Boys’ Deserves Best Picture

By Matene Toure

February 28, 2025

Lights, Camera, Staff Chat! Let’s Talk Movies.

By Defector Staff

February 27, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘Black Box Diaries’ Splits A Journalist In Two

By Soraya Roberts

February 20, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘A Different Man’ Has Sebastian Stan At His Most Alluring

By Soraya Roberts

January 31, 2025

The Movie Studio At The End Of The World, With Will Tavlin

January 30, 2025

Defector At The Movies

Is My Most Loathed Enemy A Song From The Score Of ‘Challengers’? Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah-Yeah-Yeah Yeah Yeah-Yeah-Yeah

By Chris Thompson

January 23, 2025

Arts And Culture

David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time

By Israel Daramola

January 17, 2025

Arts And Culture

‘Nosferatu’ Keeps You Waiting And Waiting

By Nicholas Russell

December 27, 2024

Arts And Culture

How Can A Life Be Wonderful?

December 25, 2024

Defector At The Movies

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘The Merry Gentlemen’

By Sabrina Imbler, Rachelle Hampton, and Justin Ellis

December 24, 2024

Arts And Culture

‘Babygirl’ Wants To Know Your Fantasy

By Israel Daramola

December 20, 2024

Defector At The Movies

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘The Christmas Quest’

By Maitreyi Anantharaman, Barry Petchesky, and Sabrina Imbler

December 18, 2024

Defector At The Movies

The Ending Of ‘Conclave’ Was Cheap And Stupid

December 15, 2024